Jurors Have Begun Deliberating in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Criminal Trial

Thursday morning, prosecutors gave their final remarks to the jurors. Promising customers that their “assets are safe” and then taking that money and spending it on yourself and your companies, “is not a ‘reasonable businesses decision,'” Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon said of Bankman-Fried’s behavior – invoking a phrase used by a defense attorney in his closing argument a day earlier. “That is fraud.”