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How FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried went from crypto king to convicted conman

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Samuel Bankman-Fried’s poster in downtown San Francisco. MacKenzie Sigalos | CNBC Two years ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a 30-year-old multibillionaire living in a $35 million Bahamas penthouse, partying with his pals while running one of the world’s most valuable crypto companies. Today, he’s a 32-year-old inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, waiting for … Read more

‘I fell in love with a superstar surgeon who turned out to be a conman’

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Paolo Macchiarini could have been plucked from the pages of a Mills & Boon novel. The handsome Italian thoracic surgeon speaks six languages and a decade ago gained global attention for his pioneering use of plastic windpipes. His ultimate aim was almost godlike: ending the need for human organ donation. The world was charmed. Stockholm’s … Read more