Failed cryptocurrency billionaire and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of federal fraud and other charges on Thursday.
周四，失败的加密货币亿万富翁、FTX创始人萨姆·班克曼-弗里德被判犯有联邦欺诈和其他指控。
Jurors decided the fate of the disgraced crypto financier, 31, finding him guilty of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering after defrauding customers on his FTX crypto exchange and lenders to his investment firm, Alameda Research, say prosecutors.
检察官表示，陪审员决定了这位31岁的声名狼藉的加密金融家的命运，在他的FTX加密交易所欺骗客户以及他的投资公司Alameda Research的贷款人后，他被判犯有电信欺诈、证券欺诈和洗钱罪。
“Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence and will continue to vigorously fight the charges against him,” his attorney Mark Cohen said, per CNN.
据CNN报道，他的律师马克·科恩表示:“班克曼-弗里德坚称自己是无辜的，并将继续积极应对针对他的指控。”
Judge Lewis Kaplan set his sentencing hearing for March 28.
法官刘易斯·卡普兰将他的量刑听证会定于3月28日举行。
During the trial, which began with jury selection on Oct. 3, jurors heard from a slew of witnesses including three top executives Gary Wang, Nishad Singh and Caroline Ellison, who were also Bankman-Fried’s close friends.
庭审于10月3日开始，陪审员听取了多位证人的证词，其中包括三名高管Gary Wang、辛格和埃里森，他们也是班克曼-弗里德的密友。
Ellison, Alameda’s former CEO, was his ex-girlfriend.
阿拉米达的前CEO埃里森是他的前女友。
Bankman-Fried and his colleagues worked together and in some cases, lived together in a lavish, $30 million penthouse in Nassau, Bahamas, where FTX was located.
班克曼-弗里德和他的同事们一起工作，有时还一起住在FTX所在的巴哈马拿骚一套价值3000万美元的豪华顶层公寓里。
Ellison pleaded guilty to federal charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, ABC News reported.
据美国广播公司报道，埃里森对联邦指控表示认罪，并同意与检察官合作。
In bombshell testimony, she told the court that her ex-boyfriend told her to commit fraud, according to multiple outlets including NBC News.
据包括NBC新闻在内的多家媒体报道，在令人震惊的证词中，她告诉法庭，她的前男友让她诈骗。
“Sam directed me to commit these crimes,” she said in her testimony, alleging that Bankman-Fried asked her to funnel money from his customers at now-defunct crypto exchange FTX into Alameda in order to pay back firms that Alameda had borrowed from, the outlet reports.
据媒体报道，她在证词中说:“山姆指使我犯下这些罪行。”她声称，班克曼-弗里德要求她将他在现已倒闭的加密货币交易所FTX的客户的钱汇入阿拉米达，以偿还阿拉米达向其借款的公司。
“We ultimately took around $14 billion, some of which we were able to pay back,” she said, according to CNBC. “I sent balance sheets to lenders at the direction of Sam that incorrectly stated Alameda’s assets and liabilities.”
据CNBC报道，她说:“我们最终获得了大约140亿美元，其中一些我们能够偿还。”“我按照山姆的指示，把资产负债表发给了贷款人，上面错误地记录了阿拉米达的资产和负债。”
She also alleged that Bankman-Fried designed a way for her to transfer the funds, CNBC and NBC News report. She said he was “very ambitious” and that he thought he had a 5% chance of someday becoming the president of the United States, according to the Associated Press.
据CNBC和NBC新闻报道，她还声称，班克曼-弗里德为她设计了一种转移资金的方式。据美联社报道，她说特朗普“非常有野心”，他认为自己有5%的机会成为美国总统。
Arrested on Dec. 12, 2022, in Nassau, the former CEO pleaded not guilty to 13 charges, including fraud and bribery.
这位前首席执行官于2022年12月12日在拿骚被捕，他对包括欺诈和贿赂在内的13项指控拒不认罪。
In December 2022, he was released on a $250 million bond and ordered to stay at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, Calif. His bond was revoked in August 2023 for alleged witness tampering. He was then remanded to the custody of U.S. Marshals and then to jail, ABC News reported.
2022年12月，他以2.5亿美元的保释金被释放，并被命令留在加利福尼亚州帕洛阿尔托的父母家中。他的保释金于2023年8月因涉嫌篡改证人而被撤销。据美国广播公司新闻报道，他随后被美国法警拘留，然后被关进监狱。
Bankman-Fried’s dizzying fall from grace came after authorities began investigating his company in 2022 after it sought bankruptcy protection for losing billions of dollars in a short amount of time.
2022年，当局开始调查他的公司，此前该公司因在短时间内损失数十亿美元而寻求破产保护。
周四，失败的加密货币亿万富翁、FTX创始人萨姆·班克曼-弗里德被判犯有联邦欺诈和其他指控。
Jurors decided the fate of the disgraced crypto financier, 31, finding him guilty of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering after defrauding customers on his FTX crypto exchange and lenders to his investment firm, Alameda Research, say prosecutors.
检察官表示，陪审员决定了这位31岁的声名狼藉的加密金融家的命运，在他的FTX加密交易所欺骗客户以及他的投资公司Alameda Research的贷款人后，他被判犯有电信欺诈、证券欺诈和洗钱罪。
“Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence and will continue to vigorously fight the charges against him,” his attorney Mark Cohen said, per CNN.
据CNN报道，他的律师马克·科恩表示:“班克曼-弗里德坚称自己是无辜的，并将继续积极应对针对他的指控。”
Judge Lewis Kaplan set his sentencing hearing for March 28.
法官刘易斯·卡普兰将他的量刑听证会定于3月28日举行。
During the trial, which began with jury selection on Oct. 3, jurors heard from a slew of witnesses including three top executives Gary Wang, Nishad Singh and Caroline Ellison, who were also Bankman-Fried’s close friends.
庭审于10月3日开始，陪审员听取了多位证人的证词，其中包括三名高管Gary Wang、辛格和埃里森，他们也是班克曼-弗里德的密友。
Ellison, Alameda’s former CEO, was his ex-girlfriend.
阿拉米达的前CEO埃里森是他的前女友。
Bankman-Fried and his colleagues worked together and in some cases, lived together in a lavish, $30 million penthouse in Nassau, Bahamas, where FTX was located.
班克曼-弗里德和他的同事们一起工作，有时还一起住在FTX所在的巴哈马拿骚一套价值3000万美元的豪华顶层公寓里。
Ellison pleaded guilty to federal charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, ABC News reported.
据美国广播公司报道，埃里森对联邦指控表示认罪，并同意与检察官合作。
In bombshell testimony, she told the court that her ex-boyfriend told her to commit fraud, according to multiple outlets including NBC News.
据包括NBC新闻在内的多家媒体报道，在令人震惊的证词中，她告诉法庭，她的前男友让她诈骗。
“Sam directed me to commit these crimes,” she said in her testimony, alleging that Bankman-Fried asked her to funnel money from his customers at now-defunct crypto exchange FTX into Alameda in order to pay back firms that Alameda had borrowed from, the outlet reports.
据媒体报道，她在证词中说:“山姆指使我犯下这些罪行。”她声称，班克曼-弗里德要求她将他在现已倒闭的加密货币交易所FTX的客户的钱汇入阿拉米达，以偿还阿拉米达向其借款的公司。
“We ultimately took around $14 billion, some of which we were able to pay back,” she said, according to CNBC. “I sent balance sheets to lenders at the direction of Sam that incorrectly stated Alameda’s assets and liabilities.”
据CNBC报道，她说:“我们最终获得了大约140亿美元，其中一些我们能够偿还。”“我按照山姆的指示，把资产负债表发给了贷款人，上面错误地记录了阿拉米达的资产和负债。”
She also alleged that Bankman-Fried designed a way for her to transfer the funds, CNBC and NBC News report. She said he was “very ambitious” and that he thought he had a 5% chance of someday becoming the president of the United States, according to the Associated Press.
据CNBC和NBC新闻报道，她还声称，班克曼-弗里德为她设计了一种转移资金的方式。据美联社报道，她说特朗普“非常有野心”，他认为自己有5%的机会成为美国总统。
Arrested on Dec. 12, 2022, in Nassau, the former CEO pleaded not guilty to 13 charges, including fraud and bribery.
这位前首席执行官于2022年12月12日在拿骚被捕，他对包括欺诈和贿赂在内的13项指控拒不认罪。
In December 2022, he was released on a $250 million bond and ordered to stay at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, Calif. His bond was revoked in August 2023 for alleged witness tampering. He was then remanded to the custody of U.S. Marshals and then to jail, ABC News reported.
2022年12月，他以2.5亿美元的保释金被释放，并被命令留在加利福尼亚州帕洛阿尔托的父母家中。他的保释金于2023年8月因涉嫌篡改证人而被撤销。据美国广播公司新闻报道，他随后被美国法警拘留，然后被关进监狱。
Bankman-Fried’s dizzying fall from grace came after authorities began investigating his company in 2022 after it sought bankruptcy protection for losing billions of dollars in a short amount of time.
2022年，当局开始调查他的公司，此前该公司因在短时间内损失数十亿美元而寻求破产保护。
