Sam Bankman-Fried's former colleague and fellow political donor Nishad Singh took the witness stand on Monday at the 31-year-old former billionaire's fraud trial, becoming the third former member of his inner circle to testify against him.
Singh, the former director of engineering at now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, pleaded guilty in February to wire fraud and conspiring to violate US campaign finance laws. His lawyers, Andrew Goldstein and Russell Capone, said at the time he would assist the government"to the best of his ability."
"I understood that the donations were in part for the benefit of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX and their ability to be politically influential," Singh said at the time. Singh was a major donor to Democratic politicians, contributing $8 million to campaigns in the 2022 election cycle. In a late Sunday letter to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried's lawyers said he needs to be given a higher dose of Adderall in jail each morning to treat his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in order to focus at trial and decide whether to testify in his own defense.
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