How Much Prison Time Is FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Facing? - Ep. 432

Ari Redbord, head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, discusses all the charges that Sam Bankman-Fried is facing and their potential outcomes.

Show highlights:

the charges against SBF and why the criminal indictment is the most important

whether SBF testifying in Congress would have complicated the DOJ's criminal case against him

why it is complicated to state how much prison time Sam is facing

the ways in which Bankman-Fried can reduce his sentence by cooperating with authorities

why it's so unprecedented that the indictment came only one month after the collapse of FTX

whether other senior FTX executives are providing prosecutors with information to reduce their charges

the reasons why SBF is being held in The Bahamas and the likelihood of him being extradited

how much the case will be delayed if SBF's lawyers fight the extradition

Ari's thoughts on whether this case will go to trial

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Previous appearances on Unchained:

Is TRM Labs Blocking Addresses From DeFi Protocols? Ari Redbord Says No

Episode Links

Unchained:

CFTC and SEC File Damning Complaints Against Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

SBF Denied Bail in The Bahamas, Will Remain in Fox Hill Prison

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested Amid US Indictment

Bahamas Asked SBF to Mint Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ Worth of New Tokens After Collapse, Say FTX Liquidators

SBF Directed $8B Alameda Liabilities to an FTX Account He Called ‘Weird Korean,’ Says CFTC

Bloomberg:

FTX Bankruptcy Standoff Heats Up as Bahamas Challenges US Case

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Harsh Bahamas Jail Could Shift His Stance on Extradition

Fortune: Sam Bankman-Fried indicted on multiple conspiracy and fraud charges by U.S. officials

The Enron Trial: A Chronology

Previous coverage of Unchained on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX:

Why the Legal Process for FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried Could Take Years

The Chopping Block: SBF Wants to Win in the Court of Public Opinion. Will He?

Jesse Powell and Kevin Zhou on How FTX and Alameda Lost $10 Billion

Is the Collapse of Crypto Lending Over, or Is It Just Starting?

Did the Bahamian Government Direct SBF and Gary Wang to Hack FTX?

The Chopping Block: Why Lenders Didn’t Liquidate Alameda When It Was Underwater

Erik Voorhees and Cobie on Why FTX Loaned Out Customers’ Assets

The Chopping Block: FTX: The Biggest Collapse in the History of Crypto?

Sam Bankman-Fried on How to Prevent the Next Terra and 3AC

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