Sam Bankman-Fried Tells Jurors He Didn’t Commit Fraud

Sam Bankman-Fried made a direct appeal to jurors who will decide his fate, testifying Friday that he made mistakes large and small while running crypto exchange FTX but didn’t defraud customers out of billions of dollars.

Taking the witness stand in his own defense, Bankman-Fried sought to portray himself as a well-meaning entrepreneur who set out to improve crypto markets and unintentionally did “the opposite of that.”