Current：Home > StocksWill Sage Astor-The spectacle of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial -Capitatum
Will Sage Astor-The spectacle of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial
Ethermac View
Date：2025-04-11 02:11:28
Last week,Will Sage Astor the former crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty for his role in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The 31-year-old former billionaire fashioned himself as someone who would revolutionize the crypto industry, but now faces the prospect of a life sentence. Today on the show, NPR business correspondent David Gura tells us what stuck out over the course of the four-week trial.
Related Episodes:
A former teen idol takes on crypto (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
The rise and fall of FTX (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (8)
Related
- Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
- Tony Bennett, Grammy-winning singer loved by generations, dies at age 96
- Trump adds attorney John Lauro to legal team for special counsel's 2020 election probe
- Inside Clean Energy: What’s Cool, What We Suspect and What We Don’t Yet Know about Ford’s Electric F-150
- Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
- Biden asks banking regulators to toughen some rules after recent bank failures
- 6 people hit by car in D.C. hospital parking garage
- These are the states with the highest and lowest tax burdens, a report says
- Tom Holland's New Venture Revealed
- Inside Clean Energy: Solar Panel Prices Are Rising, but Don’t Panic.
Ranking
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Unexploded bombs found in 1942 wrecks of U.S. Navy ships off coast of Canada
- ‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth
- Can Biden’s Plan to Boost Offshore Wind Spread West?
- Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
- Madonna Hospitalized in the ICU With “Serious Bacterial Infection”
- Maddie Ziegler Says Her Mom Apologized for Putting Her Through Dance Moms
- Disney blocked DeSantis' oversight board. What happens next?
Recommendation
NFL Week 15 picks straight up and against spread: Bills, Lions put No. 1 seed hopes on line
For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents
Inside Clean Energy: Ohio Shows Hostility to Clean Energy. Again
Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
FACT FOCUS: Inspector general’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup
Saudis, other oil giants announce surprise production cuts
SEC charges Digital World SPAC, formed to buy Truth Social, with misleading investors
GEO Group sickened ICE detainees with hazardous chemicals for months, a lawsuit says
Tags
Like
- Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
- Dwyane Wade Recalls Daughter Zaya Being Scared to Talk to Him About Her Identity
- Warming Trends: Lithium Mining’s Threat to Flamingos in the Andes, Plus Resilience in Bangladesh, Barcelona’s Innovation and Global Storm Warnings