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Financial Fraud Trial Begins: Who Is Sam Bankman-Fried?

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto wunderkind and CEO of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is facing criminal charges of fraud and money laundering. When his empire came crashing down last year, millions of people were left empty-handed and investors lost billions. Sheelah Kolhatkar profiled Bankman-Fried and his family for The New Yorker and joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.

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