it was december of 2022 when the justice department first announced the historic indictment of a well-known billionaire and politica sam mangman-fried now under arrest and facing multiple charges. reporter: today sam bankman-fried founder and ceo of crypto exchange ftx is facing criminal indictments and a wave of civil complaints. the sam bankman-fried indictment complicated financial instruments, international currency s,exchanges, and a who lot more.ng it was a first of its kind case for the justice department and for the judicial system that would hear that case, and it took ten months for that case with all its myriad complexities to go to trial. sam bankman-fried was indicted infr the month of december. by the following october he was sitting in a courtroom. as it turns out that is a fair lestandard amount of time for major cases. in october of 2017 former trump campaign manager paul manafort was arrested and charged by robert mueller in washington, d.c. for money