SBF Trial Jury Was Sent Home for the Day, but His Debut on the Stand Was Significant Anyway

Occasionally, Bankman-Fried would look upwards for an extended period, eyes darting as if searching for the optimal answer to a given query. When Bankman-Fried did answer, his responses were almost always lengthy and meandering – couched in terms like “probably,” “I think,” and “to my best estimate.” Frequently, though, he simply said: “I don’t recall,” such as when he was asked whether he recalled a conversation about how $13 billion had gone missing at the company – a discussion described earlier in the trial by prosecution witness Nishad Singh, a member of Bankman-Fried’s FTX inner circle who has pleaded guilty.