Sam Bankman-Fried’s upcoming trial on fraud charges marks a major test for a broader crackdown on white collar crime led by Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor: Damian Williams. Upon taking office in late 2021 as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, ...Read More

In the weeks since his crypto empire has collapsed, Sam Bankman-Fried has ignored the most fundamental legal advice that any lawyer — or even a casual viewer of TV crime procedurals — would give: Shut your mouth. Rather, Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, has ...Read More

In recent days it’s become clear that crypto’s one-time golden boy, Sam Bankman-Fried, did not just disappoint his investors and customers at bankrupt FTX, but that he may have broken the law. There are reports federal prosecutors in Manhattan are preparing criminal charges and ...Read More

In 2020, Wells Fargo paid $3 billion to settle claims that employees had committed widespread consumer abuses, including opening millions of unauthorized or outright bogus accounts, forging signatures, and moving money from real accounts to fake ones. Regulators zeroed in on Wells Fargo’s incentive system, intended ...Read More

The hedge fund firm formerly known as Och-Ziff “deteriorated” under the “mismanagement” of its founder Daniel Och, forcing those who succeeded him to spend years stabilizing the Wall Street firm, the company said in court filings. Och’s handling of a 2016 African bribery scandal ...Read More