
David Yaffe-Bellany
@yaffebellany
Reporter for @nytimes, covering crypto and fintech from New York // past: Bloomberg News and Businessweek // [email protected] // DM for phone/Signal.
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https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-yaffe-bellany 28-06-2011 00:59:47
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NEW: The Justice Department is investigating Sam Bankman-Fried for market manipulation -- focused on whether trading by Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto hedge fund helped trigger the Luna collapse in May. w/ Emily Flitter Matthew Goldstein nytimes.com/2022/12/07/busā¦




NEW: The feds have charged SBF with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and money laundering, via William K. Rashbaum: nytimes.com/2022/12/12/busā¦


SBF's "charges included wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and money laundering, said a person with knowledge of the matter." via David Yaffe-Bellany William K. Rashbaum Matthew Goldstein nytimes.com/2022/12/12/busā¦

"massive, yearslong fraud" w/Emily Flitter, Matthew Goldstein and an army of others: nytimes.com/2022/12/13/busā¦

This week on Hard Fork: SBFās arrest (w/ David Yaffe-Bellany), our 2023 tech predictions, mailbag qs and Casey Newton and I make our karaoke debut. nytimes.com/2022/12/16/podā¦

After two years, Iām sad to say Monday was my last day at CoinDesk. Iām proud of the editorial team and all the amazing work we did, which included FTX coverage that won a George Polk Awards. Yesterday (timely!), we were also named a finalist in the Gerald Loeb Awards. THREAD š§µ/12:

NEW w/David Yaffe-Bellany: The giant crypto exchange Binance sent 2 employees to Nigeria in February. They were arrested. One later escaped; the other, a former US law enforcement officer, is in a Nigerian jail. There's a craaazy backstory to this. Here it is nytimes.com/2024/04/18/tecā¦


Behind Nigeriaās Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request - by ā¦David Yaffe-Bellanyā© & me nytimes.com/2024/05/07/tecā¦

NEW w/David Yaffe-Bellany: The US State Department has formally requested that jailed Binance employee Tigran Gambaryan be released from a Nigerian prison on humanitarian grounds. His supporters want State to apply even more pressure. nytimes.com/2024/09/12/tecā¦