After Chinese authorities froze several Alameda accounts worth more than $1 billion, Bankman-Fried directed an employee to make bribery payments to at least one government official there, an indictment says.
He is one of several high-profile names suing Associated Papers, which owns the Daily Mail, over allegations of phone tapping and other breaches of privacy.
The judge overseeing the trial did not seem sympathetic to the company's argument that it would be an "inconvenience" for the 92-year-old chairman to provide testimony in court.
The crypto industry’s collapse is ongoing and has been playing out for almost exactly a year, but bitcoin has shown some ability to shake off those troubles.
After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Saturday is the deadline those who had been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status.
His reappearance follows an 18-month crackdown on the sector by the Chinese government, which is trying to reinvigorate an economy slowed by its “zero-Covid” policies.
The White House also announced that President Joe Biden would sign an executive order aimed at curtailing spyware abuse by setting guidelines for the companies that produce it.