Sam Bankman-Fried shows up for court leaner, with famous locks shorn

Sam Bankman-Fried sits beside his defence lawyer Christian Everdell on the first day of his fraud trial over the collapse of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, at Federal Court in New York City in this courtroom sketch. — Reuters

It was a noticeably leaner Sam Bankman-Fried, his famously unkempt hair tamed and trimmed, who showed up in a New York courtroom for the start of his multibillion-dollar fraud trial.

The 31-year-old FTX co-founder arrived in Manhattan federal court for jury selection Tuesday (Oct 3) dressed in a navy suit that seemed bigger on him than in previous appearances. He sat in the middle of the courtroom, flanked by his lawyers.