Caroline Ellison, cố vấn của Sam Bankman-Fried, cho biết anh đã 'chỉ đạo' cô phạm tội

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First they were colleagues on a trading floor (sàn giao dịch) in New York. Then they were friends running a start-up (công ty khởi nghiệp) together in Hong Kong. Eventually they became partners (cổ đông, đối tác) in a turbulent (hỗn loạn, náo loạn) office romance (hẹn hò lãng mạn nơi công sở) chronicled (sử biên niên) in tabloid headlines around the world.

On Tuesday, in a packed Manhattan courtroom, the relationship between Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison took another turn. The two faced each other for the first time since the cryptocurrency trading companies they built together, FTX and Alameda Research, collapsed in November.

Ms. Ellison, 28, took the stand for about four hours on the fifth day of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial in federal court. She began by taking more than 10 seconds to identify Mr. Bankman-Fried when a prosecutor asked her to point him out.

Then within the first 15 minutes of her testimony, Ms. Ellison repeatedly blamed (liên tục đổ lỗi) Mr. Bankman-Fried, 31, for crimes (tội ác) that led to FTX’s implosion. She testified that he instructed her to use FTX customer deposits to finance venture investments (đầu tư mạo hiểm) and loan repayments by Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund (quỹ tương hỗ) that she oversaw for him. She said Alameda took around $14 billion, only some of which it was able to repay.

...Ms. Ellison and Mr. Bankman-Fried met more than five years ago at Jane Street, a New York trading firm where Mr. Bankman-Fried worked briefly after college.

Alameda had dipped into FTX’s customer funds for years, Ms. Ellison said. At a meeting in Hong Kong in 2021, she said, Mr. Bankman-Fried authorized the use of FTX customer deposits to buy back about $2 billion in shares of the exchange that were owned by the rival crypto company Binance.

source: nytimes,