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Sam Bankman-Fried

Founder of FTX and Alameda Research convicted of misusing customer funds and misleading investors about risk controls and balance sheet health.

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Samantha Azzopardi

Samantha Lyndell Azzopardi is an Australian con artist who has been accused of many instances of conning families and authorities, not only in her native Australia but also in Ireland and Canada.

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Samuel D. Waksal

is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems. In October 2002, he pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud, bank fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury.

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Samuel Israel III

former hedge fund manager; ran the fraudulent American Bayou Hedge Fund Group; pled guilty in 2005 of defrauding investors out of $450 million ($ million today)

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Sante Kimes

and her son committed numerous frauds, violated anti-slavery laws, and committed murders

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Scott Fawell

Scott Fawell was the Chief of Staff to Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan, who would later be arrested in an investigation entitled Operation Safe Road, which resulted in Ryan being sentenced to more than five years in prison on fe...