Speaker 1: Wondering.
Speaker 2: Meet Sam. Sam is thirty years old.
Speaker 3: He typically wore T shirts and shorts and samples.
Speaker 2: He likes to play computer games.
Speaker 4: He is commanding this army of fairies and elves in
Speaker 4: this online game.
Speaker 2: He talks a lot about doing good and helping people.
Speaker 5: There really was this idea that he was going to
Speaker 5: change the world.
Speaker 2: Sam may not act the part, but he's a billionaire.
Speaker 3: Say for Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 2: No one in history has ever gotten so rich so young.
Speaker 2: But on December twelfth, twenty twenty two, everything changes for
Speaker 2: Sam and what he calls a screw up.
Speaker 3: The US government calls one of the largest frauds in history.
Speaker 2: They had lost a very significant amount of money. Lots
Speaker 2: of people were hurt badly, which left everyone wondering who
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Speaker 2: The Fall of Sam Bankman Freed a story of incredible wealth.
Speaker 2: There was a sense of awe when he walked in.
Speaker 2: It was like a celebrity betrayal.
Speaker 1: He would flip a switch with regards to a given person,
Speaker 1: he would delete them from his reality.
Speaker 2: And what happens when that talk of doing good goes
Speaker 2: really really bad.
Speaker 5: It was basically just everyone racing out the door of
Speaker 5: the burning building for the same exit. Right, you realize
Speaker 5: that it was just a big smoking crater.
Speaker 2: Of a company. So that's when I started saying, don't
Speaker 2: trust Sam Bankman Freed.
Speaker 3: I'm Hannah Miller, a reporter for Bloomberg. Follow Spellcaster The
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Speaker 3: I should ask Sam, and he was just like us,
Speaker 3: where my money is