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Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried was born on the 5th of March 1992 in Stanford, California. He grew up in an upper-middle class Jewish household with parents who were both professors at Stanford Law School.
Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy involving the misappropriation of customer funds from FTX and Alameda Research. The court sentenced him to 25 years in prison on the 28th of March 2024 and ordered him to pay $11.02 billion in forfeiture.
Sam Bankman-Fried lost control of FTX and Alameda Research after Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced a sale of FTT tokens on the 8th of November 2022, triggering a bank run. FTX filed for bankruptcy on the 11th of November 2022 following the revelation that billions in customer funds were transferred to Alameda Research without disclosure.
Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested on the 12th of December 2022 in New Providence, Bahamas, by the Royal Bahamas Police Force. He consented to his extradition to the United States shortly after and was charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering.
Sam Bankman-Fried donated $5.2 million to super PACs supporting the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and contributed $39.8 million to Democratic causes in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles. He also gave $262,200 to Republican Party campaigns and planned to spend over $100 million in the 2024 presidential election.