SBF et al 'engaged in a scheme' to defraud Alameda lenders, per criminal charges

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COUNT FOUR: Wire Fraud on Lenders

The Grand Jury further charges:

6. From at least in or about 2019, up to and including in or about November 2022, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, knowingly having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud, and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, transmitted and caused to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, and television communication in interstate and foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, to wit, BANKMAN-FRIED, along with others, engaged in a scheme to defraud lenders to Alameda Research, BANKMAN-FRIED's proprietary crypto hedge fund, by providing false and misleading information to those lenders regarding Alameda Research's financial condition.

(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 and 2.)

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