Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-lover Caroline Ellison may be star witness at his NYC trial starting this week

Fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried’s blockbuster criminal fraud trial kicks off this week in Manhattan federal court – where his former lover and business partner could be the star witness that dooms him. Caroline Ellison, the 28-year-old former head of Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, could be the most impactful ex-member of the once-billionaire’s orbit that federal prosecutors call to the stand at the trial, which begins Tuesday morning with jury selection. “She could be the witness who puts him in prison,” attorney Howard Fischer, who took executives accused...