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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 6 MIN

FTX: Eight Billion Dollars and 72 Hours

from Dark Money: True Crime Finance · host Dark Whisper Studios

He testified before Congress. He donated hundreds of millions to charity. He was on the cover of Forbes. And he stole eight billion dollars from the customers who trusted him with their money.This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside the collapse of FTX and the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried — how the world's second-largest crypto exchange evaporated in seventy-two hours, why customer funds were being used to fund a competing trading firm, and what effective altruism has to do with one of the largest financial frauds in American history.Subscribe to Dark Money: True Crime Finance for new episodes every Monday and Wednesday.

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