FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all eight charges
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has pled not guilty to all the charges facing him because of the collapse of his crypto empire FTX. The US District Judge Lewis Kaplan has also set a tentative date for trial to commence in early October. SBF pleads not guilty SBF was arraigned at the Manhattan courthouse on January 3. He is being accused of multiple counts of fraud and campaign finance violations. At the opening of the hearing, SBF”s lawyer said that his client would be taking the “not guilty ” plea. The plea was expected, according to an earlier report by Reuters. SBF appeared in a US court on Tuesday for the second time. He first appeared in court late last month when he was granted a $250 million bail bond. The bond spared SBF from spending time in prison as the trial continued. He was placed under house arrest at his parents’ home in California. In the January 3 hearing...