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Speaker 1: Pushkim, Michael Lewis here. Against the Rules is back with

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Speaker 1: a very special series. It's called Judging Sam. As you

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Speaker 1: may know, I wrote a book about Sam Bankman Freed,

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Speaker 1: the former CEO of FTX. It's called Going Infinite, The

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Speaker 1: Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, and it's out October.

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Speaker 2: The third Bankman Freed was worth tens of billions of.

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Speaker 1: Dollars before FTX, his cryptocurrency exchange came a part of

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Speaker 1: the seams, and now he's being tried for financial crimes

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Speaker 1: that could send him to prison for the rest of

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Speaker 1: his life.

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Speaker 2: On Against the Rules, we'll pick up where the book leaves.

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Speaker 1: Off by following the trial that decides Sam Bankman Freed's fate.

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Speaker 1: My producer Lydia gene Kott will be in the courtroom

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Speaker 1: daily and we're dropping episodes as often as needed to

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Speaker 1: keep you on top of it all. Judging Sam will

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Speaker 1: be the place to hear trial news and legal analysis

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Speaker 1: with me, Pushkin, host Jacob Goldstein, and other special guests.

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Speaker 2: Judging Sam.

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Speaker 1: The trial of Sam Bankman Freed starts October second, right.

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Speaker 2: Here in the Against the Rules feed and to listen

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Speaker 2: to

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Speaker 1: All our coverage, ad free sign up for Pushkin Plus

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Speaker 1: on the Against the Rules show page in Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or at pushkin dot Fm slash Plus