{"id":83292,"date":"2022-12-06T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=83292"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T05:42:22","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-could-face-years-in-prison-over-ftxs-32-billion-meltdown-if-the-u-s-ever-gets-around-to-arresting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2022\/sam-bankman-fried-could-face-years-in-prison-over-ftxs-32-billion-meltdown-if-the-u-s-ever-gets-around-to-arresting-him.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried could face years in prison over FTX\u2019s $32 billion meltdown \u2014 if the U.S. ever gets around to arresting him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FTT.CM=\/\">FTX<\/a> \u2014 the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange that was worth $32 billion a few weeks ago \u2014 has a real knack for self-promotional PR. For years, he cast himself in the likeness of a young boy genius turned business titan, capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/20\/ftx-grew-revenue-1000percent-during-the-crypto-craze-leaked-financials.html\">miraculously growing his crypto empire<\/a> as other players got wiped out. Everyone from Silicon Valley\u2019s top venture capitalists to A-list celebrities bought the act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/05\/sam-bankman-fried-could-face-years-in-prison-over-ftx-meltdown.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX \u2014 the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange that was worth $32 billion a few weeks ago \u2014 has a real knack for self-promotional PR. For years, he cast himself in the likeness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83293,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83292\/revisions\/83293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}