Mastermind Behind FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Charged for Massive Fraud Scheme
- Michael Lewis has been writing a book about Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
- Bankman-Fried has been charged with laundering money, bribing officials, and stealing billions of dollars from customers.
- Lewis had spent a year interviewing Bankman-Fried before Bankman-Fried's arrest in the Bahamas last December.
- Lewis's book about Bankman-Fried and the rise and fall of FTX will be released in October.
- Lewis continues to speak with Bankman-Fried, who remains under house arrest.