Convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was the 'worst' cross-examination witness ever, his lawyer says

Convicted cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was the worst cross-examination witness his defense attorney had ever seen, he told Bloomberg on Tuesday.

Stanford Law School professor David Mills privately led Bankman-Fried's defense, but the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX did not follow through on his strategy during cross-examination, Bloomberg reported. reported. a jury Found Bankman-Fried pleaded guilty to seven counts of wire fraud and conspiracy-related charges in November and faces more than 100 years in prison. seconds in the New York Times.

“He might be at the top of the list as the worst person I've ever seen do an interrogation,” Mills told Bloomberg. The fact that the prosecution had high-level former founding executives testifying against Bankman-Fried posed an almost insurmountable obstacle, he added.

“I thought it was almost impossible to win a case when three or four founders say you did it,” Mills told Bloomberg. “Even if they're all lying through their teeth, it's very, very difficult to win a case like this.”

Bankman-Fried's parents, Alan Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, are also professors at Stanford Law School and have ties to Mills, according to Bloomberg. FTX is suing Bankman-Fried's parents for allegedly enriching himself and using his influence to illegally fund a Democrat-aligned political action committee called Mind the Gap, seconds to a lawsuit filed in September.

Bankman-Fried allegedly “misappropriated and embezzled FTX customer deposits and used billions of dollars in stolen funds for various purposes, including … to help finance over one hundred million dollars in campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans to try to influence cryptocurrency regulation.” seconds in the August indictment against him.

He is currently awaiting sentencing at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been using packages of fish to buy services like a haircut, The Wall Street Journal reported in november The prison he is infamously brutal and meets the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez and former secretary of Public Security in Mexico Genaro Garcia Lunaboth face drug charges.

Mills and Bankman-Fried's attorney, Mark Cohen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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