FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees to Extradition to US: Attorney

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees to Extradition to US: Attorney
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (2nd L) is led away handcuffed by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force in Nassau, Bahamas, on Dec. 13, 2022. Mario Duncanson/AFP/Getty Images
Caden Pearson
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Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to be extradited to the United States, where he faces criminal charges linked to the collapse of his cryptocurrency firm FTX, according to his lawyer.

Attorney Jerone Roberts, who represented Bankman-Fried in a Bahamas Court on Monday, told reporters the extradition paperwork is being prepared by lawyers, The New York Times reported.

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