FTX Founder Faces Fraud Charges as Inner Circle Testifies Against Him
• Sam Bankman-Fried was the visionary founder of FTX, once valued at $32 billion before it collapsed in an alleged fraud. He faces decades in prison.
• Caroline Ellison was the CEO of Bankman-Fried's crypto hedge fund and his on-again, off-again girlfriend. She delivered explosive testimony against him.
• Gary Wang was the nerdy CTO who helped Bankman-Fried start FTX. He blamed his former boss for the massive losses.
• Judge Lewis Kaplan ran a no-nonsense courtroom, deflating Bankman-Fried's defense and instructing the jury to find him guilty.
• Michael Lewis chronicled the FTX saga in his book Going Infinite, though it received mixed reviews.