Barnini Chakraborty is the senior investigations reporter at the Washington Examiner. She has previously worked at Fox News as a senior features and politics reporter. She's also worked at Fox Business as a field producer and at Dow Jones. She began her career at the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's brown frizzy hair, cargo shorts, and untucked T-shirt were all part of a carefully crafted image he curated to make himself look more like an effective altruist and less like a billionaire braggart, his one-time girlfriend Caroline Ellison testified in court on Wednesday.
When he showed up for his trial, Bankman-Fried had a very different look than the messy mop he had sported for so many years. A fellow inmate at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center had given the crypto titan a haircut, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a source familiar with the case. Bankman-Fried also ditched the shorts and showed up in a dark suit that was purportedly purchased at Macy's.
In order to beat the federal charges against him, his defense attorneys will have to make jurors believe he acted in good faith and got caught up in the largely unregulated world of cryptocurrencies. The prosecution is trying to convince them that Bankman-Fried is a criminal mastermind who stole billions to make himself, his family, and his close friends wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
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