The meetings came to light during part of an FBI agent's testimony during Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial on Tuesday.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's calendar was full of meetings with people in power in September 2022, less than two months before the exchange's collapse, according to the testimony of Richard Busick, a special agent with the FBI's Cellular Analysis Survey Team.
According to Busick, he was assigned to locate the whereabouts of Bankman-Fried's mobile phone using the data from cell towers between June 2021 and November 2022. That mobile phone data, together with emails retrieved by the Department of Justice, detailed a busy September. During the next two days, Bankman-Fried was said to have met with Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, chairman of the Saudi state-owned petroleum company Saudi Aramco, and Saudi Arabia's minister of investments Khalid A. Al-Falih, according to the emails and cell phone data gathered by the DOJ.
Earlier this week, Nishad Singh, FTX's former Head of Engineering, detailed efforts by Bankman-Friend to direct political donations. His efforts to acquire political influence also emerged as a key theme in Michael Lewis’ new book, "Going Infinite."
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