Sam Bankman-Fried’s controversial Twitter direct messages were examined today in court, with everything from NBA star Shaquille O’Neal to the crypto mogul’s apparently lax approach to regulation getting a mention.

“Fuck regulators,” one message read out in court said. “They make everything worse.”

Another series of Twitter DMs showed the disgraced crypto boss telling a reporter from Vox media outlet that he’d said “dumb shit.”

In another thread, Bankman-Fried was quizzed on when he previously said how one shouldn’t do “unethical shit” in the crypto business. He replied, “heh,” and admitted that it wasn’t really what he believed.

The court also heard Bankman-Fried question how ethical Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao—or CZ—really was in the DMs.

“Now he’s a hero,” Sam Bankman-Fried said via the messages, noting that CZ would previously talk about ethics in the crypto industry. “Is it because he’s virtuous or because he had a bigger balance sheet, and so he won.”

Bankman-Fried is facing seven criminal charges after his behemoth crypto

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