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Jury to decide fate of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried as deliberations begin
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fate is now in the hands of a jury.
Deliberations began Thursday afternoon as to whether the former billionaire was guilty of fraud in the disappearance of billions of dollars from his customers' accounts on the cryptocurrency exchange he created four years ago.
The Manhattan federal court jury began its work after a judge explained the law that will steer them through seven charges lodged against the MIT graduate and son of Stanford University law professors.
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