It was December Of 2022 when the Justice Department first announced the historic indictment of a wellknown billionaire and politica sam mangmanfried now under arrest and facing multiple charges. Reporter today Sam Bankmanfried founder and ceo of Crypto Exchange ftx is facing criminal indictments and a wave of civil complaints. The Sam Bankmanfried 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 bankmanfried 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 Laundering and faili
incarcerated. he s serving a six month sentence for stealing and burning a black lives matter flag from a church. the ability of the committee to potentially question him while he s in jail is going to raise some interesting logistical questions. might make it easier, might make it harder. stuart rodes heads oath keepers. it s a very far right militia type group. the people who moved in columns in the crowd on military equipment on january 6th those are the oath keeper types. stuart rodes has not been charged even though the justice department s most interesting cases related to january 6th involve a relationship with the proud bois and oath keepers. he has yet to be accused of any wrongdoing. the committee might potentially get to him first. betsey, you referenced that piece of video. i think we re working to show folks, and when you see it you re going to know it because it s become one of the most infamous pieces of video from outside the capitol on the day