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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried didn't think rules applied to him, ex-girlfriend says_我的网站

一 |     FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried believed in utilitarianism and thought rules against lying or stealing inhibited his ability to maximize the greatest benefit for the most people, his former girlfriend and co-worker testified Wednesday at his federal fraud trial."He didn't think rules like 'don't lie' or 'don't steal' fit into that framework," Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's on-again, off-again girlfriend, said.She said Bankman-Fried's belief caused her to accept behavior she recognized as wrong."I think it made me more willing to do things like lie or steal over time. When I started working at Alameda, I don't think I would have believed if you told me I would be sending false balance sheets or taking customer money," Ellison, who served as CEO of Alameda Research, said. "Over time it became something I was more comfortable with."Bankman-Fried faces seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering centered on his alleged use of customer deposits on the crypto trading platform FTX to cover losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to buy lavish real estate, among other personal expenses.On the witness stand for a second day Wednesday, Ellison walked the jury through Alameda balance sheets which, by October 2022, showed Bankman-Fried's private hedge fund owed FTX customers nearly $14 billion."We had a lot of risk on and we owed a lot of money to FTX customers," Ellison said. "We had no way to repay it."She said Bankman-Fried thought about trying to raise money from Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, or by selling shares in FTX, which would collapse in bankruptcy the following month, in November 2022."I was in a state of dread. I was thinking, worrying, imagining every day what would happen if people tried to withdraw too much money at one time," she said. "I was imagining all the FTX customers who we worked with who would get hurt by this."To shore up Alameda's precarious financial position Bankman-Fried told Ellison to repay Alameda's loans with money it borrowed surreptitiously from FTX customers, she testified Wednesday."He directed me to continue repaying Alameda's loans," Ellison said."How?" prosecutor Danielle Sassoon asked."By taking money from FTX customer funds," she replied.When Sassoon asked her if she knew it was wrong, Ellison replied, "Yeah I thought it was wrong," but continued to do it because "Sam told me to."By that point, Alameda had taken about $10 billion from FTX and Ellison said she worried its lender, Genesis, would find out."We had been borrowing increasing amounts of money from FTX customers and I didn't want Genesis to know that," Ellison said. "I didn't want Genesis or others to know that Alameda was borrowing a lot of money from FTX."Ellison said Bankman-Fried cautioned her against putting anything in writing, once telling her, "Anything we put on Slack should be something we're comfortable seeing in The New York Times."Ellison also described a "large bribe to Chinese government officials to get some of our trading accounts unlocked." Alameda had two trading accounts worth about a billion dollars on exchanges based in China, which were both frozen in 2021 as part of a Chinese government investigation into money laundering.It was a substantial amount of Alameda's trading capital at the time and Ellison accused Bankman-Fried of saying "that we should send the cryptocurrency transfers" equaling about $100 million.。    中新网北京8月26日电(记者 张素 李京泽)8月26日，中国外交部发言人宣布：8月30日至9月3日，国家主席习近平将出席在比什凯克举行的2026年上海合作组织峰会，并应吉尔吉斯斯坦总统扎帕罗夫、埃及总统塞西邀请对两国进行国事访问。         　　在当日的例行记者会上，外交部发言人林剑在应询介绍此访主要安排及中方对发展中吉、中埃关系的期待时表示，中国和吉尔吉斯斯坦是山水相连的好邻居、相互信任的好朋友、志同道合的好伙伴。

二 | 建交34年来，两国始终以信相交，以诚相待，树立起邻国间相互支持、彼此成就的典范。近年来，中吉关系实现跨越式发展，两国政治互信不断巩固，高质量共建“一带一路”合作成果丰硕，人文交流亮点纷呈，国际协作密切有力。去年习近平主席同扎帕罗夫总统3次会晤，引领中吉合作进入快速发展的“黄金期”。访问期间，习近平主席将同扎帕罗夫总统举行会谈，就双边关系、重点领域合作以及国际和地区形势深入交换意见，并出席各项国事活动。

三 | 中方期待同吉方一道，以此访为契机，推动两国全方位互利合作高质量发展，进一步丰富中吉命运共同体内涵，造福两国人民。         　　埃及是最早同新中国建交的阿拉伯和非洲国家。

四 | 近年来，在习近平主席和塞西总统战略引领下，两国政治互信不断深化，各领域合作成果丰硕，人文交流日益频繁，多边协作紧密有效。中埃全面战略伙伴关系实现跨越式发展，迎来历史最好时期，成为发展中国家团结协作、互利共赢的典范。此访是习近平主席时隔10年再次对埃及进行国事访问，适逢中埃建交70周年，对两国关系发展具有承前启后、继往开来的特殊重要意义。访问期间，习近平主席将同塞西总统举行会谈，就中埃关系和共同关心的国际地区问题深入交换意见。中方期待通过此访，同埃方赓续传统友谊，坚定相互支持，拓展互利合作，助力彼此现代化进程，共同谱写中埃关系新篇章，为维护地区和世界和平稳定作出积极贡献。

五 | (完) 【编辑:王琴】。

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