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Barbara Fried

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 24: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump speak on the phone with children as they track Santa Claus with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, on Christmas Eve in the State Dinning Room of the White House on December 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Theodore Schleifer • September 19, 2023

Trump’s Perfect Thiel Call & Two FTX Bombshells

Dish on Trump’s furious fundraising request to Peter Thiel, the former lawyer buying up FTX bankruptcy claims, and an explosive lawsuit targeting S.B.F.’s parents.
Theodore Schleifer & Eriq Gardner • March 7, 2023
Will S.B.F. Cut a Deal?
Prosecutors may see the case against Sam Bankman-Fried as Bernie Madoff 2.0, but S.B.F.’s got good lawyers.
A close reading of the latest developments and looming mysteries: Can S.B.F. flip on a politician? Is Ryan Salame the next FTX insider to plead guilty? What will happen to the parents, Barbara and Joe, and to the brother, G.B.F? And will the case even make it to trial?
Theodore Schleifer • January 24, 2023
S.B.F. Mama Drama
Barbara Fried and Mind the Gap raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Democratic causes, turning Fried into a minor political celebrity.
Barbara Fried was a beloved law professor whose midlife political awakening inspired Mind the Gap, a powerful network of 2,500 donors that helped the Democrats dominate the ’18 midterms. Now, she’s the latest victim of her son, Sam Bankman-Fried.
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William D. Cohan • January 18, 2023
The S.B.F. Chronicles, Part 5: The Mysteries of Stanford
Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of disgraced crypto prince S.B.F., remain calm and defiant and completely supportive of their son, despite the mounting legal storm, according to a person who spoke with them recently. This is the fifth in a series.
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Theodore Schleifer • December 13, 2022
Keeping Up with the Bankman-Frieds
At the core of the S.B.F. dilemma is the brainy academic milieu in which he came of age: a place where effective altruism was discussed at the dinner table, shape-shifting was au naturel, and the pursuit of an ethical life undergirded it all.
Sam Bankman-Fried
Theodore Schleifer • November 15, 2022
Inside the S.B.F. Blast Radius
The fate of Sam Bankman-Fried is being closely tracked at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, and by the dozens of allied political groups that are either racing to distance themselves from his surname or to find their next check.