After a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday found FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all counts in his fraud and money laundering case after about four hours and 30 minutes of deliberation, white-collar lawyers credited prosecutors with keeping the case simple.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner partner Renato Mariotti, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, said the Manhattan federal prosecutors didn’t let the jury get lost in the complexity of the cryptocurrency economy.

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at court in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

