Sam Bankman-Fried: Disgraced ‘crypto king’ says he’s ‘haunted every day’ in first interview since being jailed

Sam Bankman-Fried says he is “haunted” daily by “what was lost” after being jailed for stealing billions of dollars from his customers. The disgraced crypto entrepreneur was the chief executive of FTX, which suddenly went bankrupt in November 2022 – leaving millions of users frozen out of their accounts, with funds worth $10bn (£7.9bn) missing. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison last week after a jury in New York found him guilty of fraud and money laundering, in what prosecutors have described as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”. In his first comments since being…