{"id":86277,"date":"2023-10-24T00:09:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=86277"},"modified":"2023-10-23T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:56:41","slug":"prosecutors-in-bankman-fried-trial-compare-defense-argument-to-dumb-and-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2023\/prosecutors-in-bankman-fried-trial-compare-defense-argument-to-dumb-and-dumber.html","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in Bankman-Fried trial compare defense argument to \u2018Dumb and Dumber\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Prosecutors in the criminal trial against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried compared one of the defense\u2019s arguments to a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7GSXbgfKFWg\" target=\"_blank\">scene<\/a> in the 1994 film \u201cDumb and Dumber,\u201d in which actor Jim Carrey says IOUs are \u201cas good as money.\u201d Much of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/10\/03\/sam-bankman-fried-trial-begins-jury-should-be-selected-by-wednesday.html\">government\u2019s case<\/a> hinges on billions of dollars that FTX, Bankman-Fried\u2019s crypto exchange, siphoned out of customer accounts and used largely to try and cover up losses at sister hedge fund Alameda Research after cryptocurrency prices plunged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/10\/20\/prosecutors-in-sbf-trial-compare-defense-argument-to-dumb-and-dumber.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Prosecutors in the criminal trial against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried compared one of the defense\u2019s arguments to a scene in the 1994 film \u201cDumb and Dumber,\u201d in which actor Jim Carrey says IOUs are \u201cas good as money.\u201d Much [&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-86277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86277","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=86277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86278,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86277\/revisions\/86278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}