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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyer Says He Was the Worst Witness Ever

Stanford professor David Mills was close with the FTX founder’s parents. The relationship may be over, he says.

Stanford professor David Mills, who coordinated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense, thinks his former client “may be at the very top of the list as the worst person I’ve ever seen do a cross examination,” according to a new interview with Bloomberg. The chips were stacked against the fallen crypto kingpin, Mills acknowledged, since Bankman-Fried’s fellow executives took plea deals and testified against him. “I thought it was almost impossible to win a case when three or four founders are all saying you did it,” he said. But Bankman-Fried’s combative, meandering testimony only made things worse, he argued. In November, the jury quickly found Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts.