Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial: who are the key names?
Sam Bankman-Fried's trial places the former billionaire in a Manhattan courtroom alongside prosecutors steeped in financial crimes and political corruption cases, a veteran judge, and former friends and colleagues set to testify against him.
Here's who will play key roles during the trial, which prosecutors say could last up to six weeks:
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Bankman-Fried, 31, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy over the November 2022 collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded three years prior. Prosecutors say he stole billions in FTX customer funds to plug losses at Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund he owned.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate rode a boom in the values of Bitcoin and other digital assets to an estimated $26 billion net worth and gained influence in Washington by donating millions to US campaigns, before a wave of customer withdrawals led FTX to bankruptcy.
The prosecutors
The team of six prosecutors handling the case has been led by Danielle Sassoon and Nicolas Roos.
Sassoon, a Yale Law School graduate and former clerk for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is known for prosecuting Lawrence Ray, a man convicted last year of sex trafficking and extorting New York college students.
Roos, a Stanford Law School graduate, led the prosecutions of former Rudolph Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and
