It hasn’t even started. But the crypto trial of the century has gotten even crazier in recent days after Sam Bankman-Fried was confirmed to have leaked his ex’s diary excerpts to the New York Times.
Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX affiliate Alameda Research, had been writing journal entries in her Google Docs account. But to hear SBF’s lawyers tell it, the outrage is not that their client leaked these supposedly private entries. But that prosecutors, and John Ray III, SBF’s replacement as CEO of FTX, have spoken too freely to the media and smeared SBF.
An Explosive Twist in the Sam Bankman-Fried Saga
Alameda Research was the unofficial sister company of FTX. The investment firm also used FTX customer funds for its investments without the knowledge or consent of customers.
However, to the shock of many, Ellison’s diary entries surfaced in a July 20 story in the New York Times called “Inside the Private Writings of Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in the FTX Case.”
Observers immediately speculated that the source of the diary entries was Sam Bankman-Fried himself, Ellison’s former colleague and boyfriend.
However, in a court filing submitted Monday, lawyers for SBF have confirmed the leak came from the FTX founder. They have also defended his actions, saying he was only trying to give his side of the story.
“Mr. Bankman-Fried did nothing wrong,” reads the July 24
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