Federal prosecutors and regulators from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission all told a similar story on Tuesday about Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged scheme to divert billions of dollars of customers’ money from the FTX crypto exchange to Alameda Research LLC. They all accused Bankman-Fried of fraud, asserting that he repeatedly lied when he insisted that FTX customers’ money was safe, secure and completely segregated from the affiliated but purportedly independent Alameda.
