Digital Evidence
Government Exhibit 480C
The November 8 Signal exchange discusses employee blame and Singh's suggestion that employees be told the crisis was not orchestrated by many people. Bankman-Fried agreed that the suggestion was probably correct, but the parties presented different interpretations of what that response acknowledged.
November 8, 2022 Signal messages between Singh and Bankman-FriedGX-480C
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The prosecution characterized Bankman-Fried's response as an admission that he had orchestrated the fraud. Bankman-Fried testified instead that he understood Singh to be asking that employees not blame Singh for causing the crisis and that his response concerned making continued cooperation easier.