REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was grilled on Tuesday about what a U.S. prosecutor called his "cozy" relationship with officials in the Bahamas, where the cryptocurrency exchange was based before its November 2022 collapse.
Sassoon asked.
Bankman-Fried testified on Tuesday he could not remember whether he offered to pay off the Bahamas' national debt.
Sassoon at one point asked Bankman-Fried whether he had "cultivated a cozy relationship" with the Bahamian government - a question to which the defense objected.
Bankman-Fried testified that he had spent time with Bahamian officials and became close with "some of them."
Persons:
Sam Bankman, Fried, Danielle Sassoon, Jane Rosenberg, Sassoon, Gary Wang, Bankman, District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Luc Cohen, Will Dunham
Organizations:
REUTERS, Alameda Research, FTX's, Miami Heat National Basketball Association, Bahamian, District, Thomson
Locations:
New York City, U.S, Bahamas, Manhattan, Alameda, Washington, New York