Come november of 2024. Gillian Jacque Heinrich at the white house. Thank you. Bill 10 00 here in new york. A 9yearold girl kidnapped and held for ransom is found safe. She was hidden inside a camper van. Police have arrested this man, 46yearold craig ross jr. After finding a fingerprint on a ransom note that he left at the parents home in their mailbox. He is now charged with kidnapping and held without bail. Charlotte siena was last seen 6 30 at sunset on saturday night. No sign of charlotte. They launched a massive investigation, 48 hours later the suspect was in custody and charlotte was indeed found safe. A friend of the family describing their agony. It was brutal. It was brutal. As a parent how can you not think the most cherished moment is to hug your children. The family saying a huge thank you to authorities. Nancy grace joins us later this hour with a look at this. Everything that went right this time around and what kind of charges this 46yearold man may face. Stand by for t
billions of dollars of customer assets to plug losses at his own hedge fund alameda, in what they have called one of the biggest financial frauds in american history. they say former alameda boss caroline ellison and ftx co founder gary wang have pleaded guilty to charges and are co operating. sbf, as he s known, says he never intended to commit fraud but has admitted making mistakes . samira hussain has more. at one point sam bankman fried because my company was worth $32 billion. seemingly overnight the crypto exchange collapsed and filed for bankruptcy. it also set the tidal wave through the crypto world, the value of cyrptocurrencies finding and confidence in the industry has created. on wednesday one of the biggest cryptocurrency mining firms in the united states filed for bankruptcy
ashley: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried arriving in the u.s. yesterday in new york after chaotic extradition process from the bahamas. he faces fraud and money laundering charges. his ex-girlfriend and ftx co-founder both pleaded guilty in connection with the firm s collapse. ceo of the hedge fund alameda, she and the fellow co-founder are cooperating with authorities, which are expected to result in lighter sentences. griff: war on women s sports cont continues. last week ruled in favor of biological males, calling it victory for fairness, equality
ftx is the safest and easiest way to buy instill crypto. larry david promoted ftx during the super bowl. like i was saying, it s ftx, it s a safe and easy way to get into crypto. i don t think so. and i m never wrong about this stuff, never. the nba s steph curry announced a long term partnership with ftx last year. bankman-fried even made a deal with the miami heat, renaming their home the ftx arena. it was a stunning rise for the m.i.t. graduate, only to be followed by a spectacular collapse. i should have been on top of this and i feel really, really bad and regretful that i wasn t at a lot of people got hurt, and that is on me. a lot of people got hurt because ftx was allegedly using investors money to bail out its partner firm, alameda research. bankman-fried had started the hedge fund alameda in november, 2017. he launched ftx a couple years later and it became a wildly popular exchange for buying and selling crypto. but when alameda creditors came
pete: he s 30 years old, went to mit, clearly a smart guy on some level. he founded alameda research in 2017 and later ftx. good timing for him, by the way, right at the leading edge of when crypto started to take off. a lot of interest in research and leveraging arbitrage, and he started an exchange which is effectively a place where you can trade crypto. will: so consumers would have wallets or accounts with ftx, and the story goes the investigation needs to confirm that there was sort of a back door at ftx where $10 billion made its way from ftx back over to the hedge fund alameda, which was having trouble at the time. pete: that s exactly right. alameda made some really good, early bets, made a lot of money. then as crypto started to dive, alameda became insolvent. so sbf said i ve got a bank other here of other people s money that they had put into ftx, and he loaned it to his company to try to make it