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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here

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Speaker 2: are the stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: We begin with a guilty verdict for Sam Bankman Free.

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Speaker 3: It took a jury less than five hours to convict

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Speaker 3: the FTX co founder of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's June Grossow begins our team coverage.

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Speaker 4: It's not a surprise because the evidence against him was overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: And think, what did it is? Dam Makminfried took the

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Speaker 4: stand in his own defense, and when a defendant takes

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Speaker 4: the stand that way, the whole thing in the jury's

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Speaker 4: mind becomes a credibility game. How incredible do they find him.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's June Grosso says Sam Bankman Fried faces as much

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Speaker 3: as twenty years in prison on each of the most

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Speaker 3: serious charges. He'll be sentenced in March.

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Speaker 2: Well Nathan Bloomberg. The legal reporter Ava Benny Morrison was

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Speaker 2: in the courtroom during the verdict, and she continues our

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Speaker 2: team coverage.

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Speaker 5: He was pretty emotionless. He was asked to stand up

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Speaker 5: by the judge. When the jury delivered its verdict, he

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Speaker 5: faced the jury box. He held his hands in front

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Speaker 5: of him and it looked like he was tearing down

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Speaker 5: at the floor as the jury. As the fourth person

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Speaker 5: for the jury confirmed guilty to each of the seven charges.

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Speaker 5: He then sat back down. When the jury walked out

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Speaker 5: of the room. He was whispering with his lawyers. He

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Speaker 5: was nodding a lot while he wasn't very emotional. His

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Speaker 5: parents were how they were holding each other. His dad,

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Speaker 5: I'm doubled over at one point.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Legal reporter Ava Benny Morrison reports, Bankman's lawyer is

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Speaker 2: considering an appeal.

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Speaker 3: Hey Karen Bloomberg. Business Week investigative reporter Zeke Fox wrote

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Speaker 3: a book on ftx's crypto Rollercoaster, and he says bankmin

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Speaker 3: Freed struggled under cross examination.

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Speaker 6: When his own lawyer was questioning him, he had a

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Speaker 6: lot to say, but when the prosecution had there turned

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Speaker 6: a cross examine, he suddenly didn't remember anything. And in

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Speaker 6: one moment that was dramatic, I mean, especially for me.

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Speaker 6: The prosecutor asked her, as she asked him about the statement,

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Speaker 6: there was more leeway, and he said, I don't remember

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Speaker 6: saying anything like that. She whipped out a copy of

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Speaker 6: my book number go up and walked it over to

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Speaker 6: him like a hard copy, and was like turn to

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Speaker 6: page two twenty four.

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Speaker 3: In Bloomberg Business Week, Zeke Fox ads the conviction is

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Speaker 3: the first in a wave of legal action against crypto companies.

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Speaker 2: Nathan now to the other major trial happening in New York,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's two hundred and fifty million dollars civil fraud case.

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Speaker 2: The former president's two oldest sons took turns on the

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Speaker 7: Before even having a day in court, I'm apparently guilty

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump Junior's brother Eric is set to continue testifying today.

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Speaker 2: Their sister Evonka will take the stand next week. She

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Speaker 6: Well, Karen, we.

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Speaker 3: Now turn to the war in the Middle East. Secretary

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Speaker 8: We're determined that this conflict Nott spread and we'll be

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Speaker 3: When Secretary of State b Lincoln's arrival comes. As ground

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Speaker 2: Well, Nathan. The House has passed the Aid for Israel bill,

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Speaker 2: but Bloomberg's Ad Baxter reports it may have a troubled future.

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Speaker 9: This is a victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson, but

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Speaker 9: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been saying taking funding

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Speaker 6: There is absolutely no equivocation here. We have to stay with.

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Speaker 9: Israel, and Republican Congressman Tom Cole says there are different

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Speaker 8: We have a lot of unspent money.

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Speaker 9: We ought to use that toward a more important purpose,

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Speaker 9: and that's Israel. So the issue is far from settled.

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Speaker 9: Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 8: Okay and thank you.

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Speaker 3: Turning the market. Shares of Apple are down more than

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Speaker 3: three percent. The world's most valuable company reported its fourth

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Speaker 3: straight sales decline, and it's warning holiday revenue will be

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Speaker 3: about the same as last year. Angelo Zeno, as senior

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Speaker 10: It's not the most favorable landscape out there for PCs,

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Speaker 10: even though the broader PC landscape appears to have found

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Speaker 10: some sort of putting for the time being, but at

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Speaker 10: the end of the day, the consumer landscape is still

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Speaker 3: Nature cfres angelo Zino says the results also suggest Apples

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Speaker 3: facing a decceleration in China.

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Speaker 2: Well Nathano the stocks on the move this morning. Shares

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Speaker 2: of DraftKings up seven percent. The sports betting operator reported

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Speaker 2: sales and player numbers that beat analysts expectations, Block shares

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Speaker 2: surging more than eighteen percent, the Payments Giant run by

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Speaker 2: Jack Dorsey, again boosting its profit forecast for the year,

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Speaker 2: and shares of Booking dropping as much as seven percent

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Speaker 2: in light trading. The company formerly known as Price Lines

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Speaker 2: as travel demand had been diminished by the Israel Hamas war,

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Speaker 3: The economic front, Karen a busy Week concludes with the

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Speaker 3: October Jobs Report, a preview of that now from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 3: Michael McKee.

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Speaker 11: FED chair J Powell says a tight labor market could

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Speaker 11: lead to another rate move, which means markets will partch

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Speaker 11: the October jobs report trying to determine what it signals.

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Speaker 11: Is hiring still much stronger than what's needed to absorb

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Speaker 11: an increasing labor force. Have higher interest rates led companies

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Speaker 11: to pull back on hiring or even start letting people go.

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Speaker 11: Our company is still paying up to attract workers, while

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Speaker 11: the FED we'll also see the November payrolls report before

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Speaker 11: its next meeting. Powell says it will take several months

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Speaker 11: of data to make any decisions. Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Nathan, thank you. It is time now for

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Speaker 2: a look at some of the other stories making news

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Speaker 2: around the world. And for that we're joined by Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: John Tucker, John, good morning.

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Speaker 12: And Karen. Something maybe rotten in the Big Apple. The

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Speaker 12: mayor's fundraising campaign is under investigation. Let's get more on

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Speaker 13: Mayor Adams ditched White House meeting on the migrant crisis

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Speaker 8: But you probably heard the reports involved in one of

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Speaker 13: Staffer is lead fundraiser, twenty five year old Branna Suggs,

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Speaker 13: whose Brooklyn home was raided by the FBI on along

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Speaker 13: with the officers of a New York construction firm called KSK,

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Speaker 13: it made fourteen thousand dollars in campaign contributions. The investigation

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Speaker 13: is looking into whether the company, along with Turkish nationals,

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Speaker 13: Adams was supposed to be with the mayors of Chicago

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Speaker 13: and Denver. It asked Congress to approve President Biden's request

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Speaker 13: at one point four billion dollars to help the cities

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Speaker 13: We're both.

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Speaker 10: Grateful for what they've done.

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Speaker 14: It's critical for us that this package passes over the

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Speaker 14: next several weeks to get funding to cities, otherwise we'll

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Speaker 14: have catastrophic impacts.

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Speaker 12: The Democratic Mayor's trying to put pressure on the Bided

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Speaker 12: administration to address the humanitarian crisis caused by record crossings

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Speaker 12: at the southern border. The Senate had voted ninety five

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Speaker 12: to one to confirm Admiral Linda Franchetti to be the

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Speaker 12: to be a US military service chief. Set of Majority

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Speaker 15: Admiral Fanchette is an exceptional leader with a distinguished career

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Speaker 15: serving our nation. I'm confident she has the experience, the skills,

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Speaker 12: Officer, Franchetti's confirmation comes amid a temporary break from a

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Speaker 12: blockade by Senator Tommy Tubberville, stalling hundreds of military promotions.

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Speaker 12: Riding high on historic contract wins against Detroit's automakers. Uaputy

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Speaker 16: Karen Weick nine in the NFL Underway with an AFC

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Speaker 16: game in Pittsburgh. The Steelers and Titans were tied at ten,

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Speaker 16: then at thirteen, Pittsburgh trailed in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 8: Ticket in the shotgut gets the snap looks right, the Ted.

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Speaker 13: Johnson wide open touchdown Pittsburgh. The Steelers bunch in ninety

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Speaker 13: And what a couple of seasons does.

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Speaker 16: Twenty Games TV had the calls. The Steelers beat the

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Speaker 16: Titans twenty to sixteen. Pittsburgh's five and three. Tennessee is

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Speaker 16: three and five. In Victor Weberanna's fifth NBA game, the

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Speaker 16: Spurs rookie Sensations scored thirty eight points. He had ten

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Speaker 16: rebounds some highlight reel baskets as the San Antonio Spurs

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Speaker 16: blew a twenty seven point lead but still beat Phoenix

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Speaker 16: won thirty two to one twenty one. Philadelphia's three to one,

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Speaker 16: one by fifteen over Toronto. Joel Mbiid scored twenty eight.

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Speaker 16: The Pelicans are four to one. They played without Zion Williamson. CJ.

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Speaker 16: McCollums scored thirty three and win over Detroit. Orlando won

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Speaker 16: by two at Utah. Palo Bankero scored thirty. The games

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Speaker 16: tonight in the NBA marked the beginning of the NBA's

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Speaker 16: in season tournament. The Bruins are nine to ozhoin one

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Speaker 16: they beat Toronto three two in a shootout. Nelson Cruz

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Speaker 16: announced his retirement at age forty three. Played nineteen seasons

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Speaker 16: for eight different teams, at four hundred and sixty four

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Speaker 16: home runs as expected World Series ratings, the lowest ever

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Speaker 16: one hundred and thirty baseball players will be free agents.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. Guilty on all counts after

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Speaker 3: a month long trial, Sam Bankman Freed is convicted in

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Speaker 3: one of the biggest cases of financial fraud in decades

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Speaker 3: over the collapse of his FTX crypto empire. For more

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Speaker 3: reaction to this outcome, we are joined now by Bloomberg

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Speaker 3: with us this morning. Of course, this came after more

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Speaker 4: Was a very quick verdict. I think that the evidence

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Speaker 4: And while he did pretty well on direct examination, on

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Speaker 3: Here, was that the biggest mistake that Sam Bankman Freed

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to characterize it as a mistake really

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Speaker 4: He had those those witnesses who turned against him, and really,

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Speaker 4: He really had no other recourse. It was sort of

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Speaker 3: And there was, as you mentioned, so much overwhelming testimony

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know so much. Many of the motions,

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Speaker 4: the courtroom. But more than that, it's very difficult to

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Speaker 3: And so we've had this uphill battle go on for

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Speaker 3: we are expecting that Sam Bankminfried and his lawyers are

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Speaker 3: going to appeal this verdict. How do you expect that to.

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Speaker 4: Go now, Well, you know, they have a lot of

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Speaker 4: but it's it's very difficult to get a conviction reversed

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Speaker 17: it's another uphill battle for him.

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