Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former chief executive of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, is facing new charges for bribery, according to an federal indictment filed Tuesday. The Justice Department claims Bankman-Fried in 2021 transferred over $40 million worth of cryptocurrency to Chinese government officials. The founder allegedly made the transfer to “influence and induce them to unfreeze the accounts” of Alameda Research, which contained over $1 billion in cryptocurrency that Beijing had frozen, according to the filing….
