U.S. Prosecutors Amass Mountain of Evidence in FTX Fraud Case
- Federal prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried have accumulated over six million pages of documents and records, including crypto transaction logs and encrypted group chats from his collapsed exchange, FTX.
- The evidence collected ranks among the largest ever collected in a white-collar securities fraud case prosecuted by the federal authorities in Manhattan.
- The evidence includes personal reflections recorded by a key witness in the case, Sam Bankman-Fried's on-and-off girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, who is expected to be a crucial witness.
- Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm that took control of FTX after it declared bankruptcy, holds many of FTX's corporate records, including emails, Slack messages, and transaction logs.
- Prosecutors have also seized evidence directly from executives in Mr. Bankman-Fried's orbit, including Ryan Salame, a high-ranking FTX executive who donated tens of millions of dollars to Republican candidates.
