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Nebraska football WR commit flips to Cincinnati on National Signing Day
Barry Jackson has flipped from Nebraska to Cincinnati on National Signing Day.
It’s a surprise move from the four-star 2023 receiver. Jackson, who had been committed to the Huskers since July 2, appeared to be firmly in the class. He took an official visit to Nebraska on Dec. 16-18 for his second OV to Lincoln of his recruitment and said that he was fully planning on signing with the Huskers on Wednesday and enroll early at Nebraska in January.
His commitment still appeared to be solid even as he was the final holdover to have not signed throughout Wednesday while 21 members of the Huskers’ class inked their National Letters of Intent to officially join the program.
Jackson, one of the more underrated receivers in the country out of Georgia powerhouse Cedar Grove High School, committed to the Huskers’ previous staff, which included former Husker coaches Mickey Joseph and Sean Beckton. A lot of change has happened with the Husker program, but it still looked as if Matt Rhule and the new staff had done enough to keep Jackson in the fold.
Mississippi State, Pittsburgh, Louisville and Memphis were some of the other programs that had been some of Jackson’s top schools prior to his commitment. Cincinnati, which is going through its own coaching change, was not among that top group but made a strong impression on him down the stretch in December.
Jackson took an official visit to Cincinnati the week prior to his Nebraska OV, and that helped buoy his decision to head to the Bearcats instead of the Big Ten.
Sam Bankman-Fried says he ‘didn’t ever try to commit fraud’
NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, attempted to distance himself from suggestions of fraud in his first public appearance since his company’s collapse stunned investors and left creditors facing losses totaling billions of dollars.
Speaking via video link at the New York Times’ Dealbook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday, Bankman-Fried said he did not knowingly commingle customer funds on FTX with funds at his proprietary trading firm, Alameda Research.
“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud,” Bankman-Fried said in the hour-long interview, adding that he doesn’t personally think he has any criminal liability.
He also denied knowing the full scale of Alameda’s position on FTX, claiming that it caught him by surprise.
The liquidity crunch at FTX came after Bankman-Fried secretly moved $10 billion of FTX customer funds to Alameda Research, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. At least $1 billion in customer funds had vanished, the people said.
Bankman-Fried told Reuters in November the company did not “secretly transfer” but rather misread its “confusing internal labeling.”
FTX filed for bankruptcy and Bankman-Fried stepped down as chief executive on Nov. 11, after traders pulled $6 billion from the platform in three days and rival exchange Binance abandoned a rescue deal.
“That week, so much happened,” he said.
Bankman-Fried said he was speaking from the Bahamas and that the interview was against the advice of his lawyers. He was seen in the video link talking from a room, dressed in a black T-shirt and occasionally drinking from a mug.
FTX faces a flurry of investigations. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan in mid-November began investigating how FTX handled customer funds, a source with knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission have also opened probes.
When asked if he could come to the United States, Bankman-Fried replied that to his knowledge he could, and that he wouldn’t be surprised if he traveled to Washington for upcoming congressional hearings on the company’s collapse.
The implosion of FTX marked a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a cryptocurrency boom to a net worth that Forbes pegged a year ago at $26.5 billion. After launching FTX in 2019, he became an influential political donor and pledged to donate most of his earnings to charities.
He said Wednesday that he now has “close to nothing” left and is down to one working credit card with “maybe $100,000 in that bank account.”
Since FTX filed for bankruptcy, Bankman-Fried has distanced himself from the image he projected in media interviews and on Capitol Hill, telling a Vox reporter his advocacy for a crypto regulatory framework was “just PR” and his discussions on ethics within the industry were at least partly a front.
Bankman-Fried said he was “confused” as to why FTX’s U.S. entity, which was included in the bankruptcy filing, is not processing customer withdrawals. Redemptions are currently paused for both U.S. and international customers.
“To my knowledge all American customers and all American regulated businesses here are, I think at least in terms of client assets, are okay,” he said, adding that derivatives contracts at one of its U.S. subsidiaries were “fully collateralized.”
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Bankman-Fried said that Alameda had built up a substantial position on FTX and that as digital asset prices plummeted this year, Alameda became increasingly more levered to the point of no return earlier this month.
“Realistically speaking, (there was) no ability for FTX to be able to liquidate that position and generate everything that was owed,” he said.
He added that he “wasn’t trying to commingle funds,” but said that when FTX didn’t have a bank account, some customers wired money to Alameda and were credited on FTX, which likely led to discrepancies.
Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO of Alameda in October 2021, four years after founding the company, and ceded the role to Caroline Ellison and Sam Trabucco, who acted as co-CEOs until Trabucco departed the firm in August.
For his part, Bankman-Fried said he regretted focusing on the bigger picture at FTX at the expense of risk management, which he said he paid less attention to over “the last year or two.”
His companies “completely failed” on risk management, he said.
“There was no person who was chiefly in charge of positional risk of customers on FTX, and that feels pretty embarrassing in retrospect.”
Reporting by Carolina Mandl and Lananh Nguyen in New York and Manya Saini in Bengaluru; writing by Hannah Lang in Washington; editing by Megan Davies, Deepa Babington and Sam Holmes
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried says he ‘screwed up’ but didn’t commit fraud | Cryptocurrencies
“Look, I screwed up,” fallen crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried told a conference in New York on Wednesday, but he maintained he “didn’t ever try to commit fraud” and was “shocked” by the collapse of his businesses.
Bankman-Fried, with glassy eyes and visibly shaking at times, appeared via video conference from a nondescript room in the Bahamas. He told the New York Times’s DealBook Summit he was “deeply sorry about what happened” but consistently argued he did not have a full picture of what was going on within the various branches of FTX, his now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, and its offshoots.
Bankman-Fried resigned as head of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange when it declared bankruptcy earlier this month. The true fallout of the collapse is still emerging. FTX owes $3.1bn (£2.57bn) to its largest creditors, assets have disappeared, law enforcement and regulators are circling and Bankman-Fried’s freehanded largesse to the American political elite is set to cause a firestorm in Washington.
One key question about the collapse is whether FTX’s customers’ funds were misappropriated and given to FTX’s hedge fund, Alameda Research. Questioned by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, the 30-year-old appeared to be shifting blame to Alameda.
“I didn’t knowingly comingle funds,” he said. “I was frankly surprised by how big Alameda’s position was.”
Asked if he had behaved like a bank teller who took the cash from the till home in the evening, Bankman-Fried said: “Look, I wasn’t running Alameda and I didn’t know exactly what was going on and the size of their position.” Alameda’s chief executive, Caroline Ellison, had reportedly been in a relationship with Bankman-Fried.
“Look, I’ve had a bad month. This is not great,” he told the audience to laughter. “What matters here is all the customers and stakeholders that got hurt and to help them out. What happens to me is not the important part.”
In earlier interviews at the conference, some of finance’s biggest players weighed in on the scandal. Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said it appeared that FTX’s collapse was the result of not just mismanagement, but bad behavior. Fink hinted that his firm, which had $24m (£20m) invested in FTX, may have been given misleading information.
“Right now, we can make all the judgment calls that it looks like there was some misbehavior of major consequence,” he told the conference. “Could we have been misled? Until we have more facts, I will not speculate.”
Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said that the FTX collapse was a “Lehman moment” for the crypto industry and described cryptocurrencies as “very risky assets”.
Bankman-Fried’s appearance at the Times’ DealBook summit comes after he has given a series of discursive and sometimes nonsensical explanations for the circumstances of FTX’s collapse, including blaming “poor internal labeling” of accounts for the company’s $8bn (£6bn) shortfall in assets.
Last week, he was dropped by leading US attorney Paul Weiss after US lawyers for FTX claimed he was disrupting its bankruptcy reorganization efforts through “incessant and disruptive tweeting”.
On stage, he acknowledged that his lawyers “were very much not” suggesting that it was a good idea to be speaking at the conference.
Bankman-Fried, whose personal fortune was estimated at $26bn (£21bn) at its peak, said he had about $100,000 (£83,000) to his name. Asked if he had been truthful in the interview, he said: “I was as truthful as I’m knowledgeable to be.”
The US senate agriculture committee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on “Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse” with commodity futures trading commission chair Rostin Behnam scheduled to appear as a witness. That will be followed, on 16 December, by hearings by the House financial services committee. It has said it expects Bankman-Fried to show up.
Bill Belichick doesn’t commit to Mac Jones as Patriots’ QB: ‘I don’t know’ if he’ll start once healthy
Mac Jones has been bruised and battered in his second year as the Patriots’ quarterback. And now his starting job might be in jeopardy. The 2021 first-rounder has missed New England’s last two games with a high-ankle sprain, and while ESPN reports he has a “decent chance” of returning in Week 6 against the Browns, coach Bill Belichick would not confirm Jones’ availability while addressing reporters Wednesday. Not only that, but Belichick wouldn’t commit to Jones remaining the starter under center.
“We’ll see,” the coach said when asked if Jones will reclaim his QB1 role once healthy. “I don’t know.”
Belichick, to be clear, would not elaborate on much of anything related to the Patriots’ QB situation. Asked if Jones’ ankle is healing enough to warrant a return against Cleveland, he declined to comment until after Wednesday’s practice, saying, “We’ll see what it looks like today and go from there.” He did deny, however, that the timeline for Jones’ return has been influenced by the performance of emergency starter Bailey Zappe, calling the latter’s efficient outings against the Packers and Lions “totally independent” of Jones’ rehabilitation.
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On the flip side, this isn’t the first time Belichick has left the door open for Zappe, a fourth-round draft pick this year, to potentially start in place of Jones regardless of injury.
“I’m not going to get into a lot of hypotheticals on all those different things that might or might not happen,” Belichick told WEEI earlier this week. “That’s just, to me, a waste of time. I’m not going to sit around and dream up scenarios and all of that. We’ll take things as they come and go from there.”
Zappe has thrown two touchdowns and one interception, while completing 75 percent of his throws, filling in for Jones and veteran backup Brian Hoyer, whose relief efforts were short-lived due to a head injury. Jones, meanwhile, struggled to open 2022 even before hurting his ankle, enduring back spasms and throwing five interceptions during New England’s 1-2 start.
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Ocasio-Cortez won’t commit to backing Biden in 2024: ‘We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it’
“I think if the President has a vision, then that’s something certainly we’re all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes,” Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat who wields a significant amount of influence over the party’s progressive wing, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked if she plans to support Biden in his 2024 reelection bid.
“That’s not a yes,” Bash said, to which the congresswoman replied: “We should endorse when we get to it, but I believe that the President’s been doing a very good job so far, and, you know, should he run again, I think that I, you know, I think … we’ll take a look at it.
“But right now, we need to focus on winning a majority instead of a presidential election,” she added, referring to this year’s November midterm elections.
The White House said last year that Biden intends to run for reelection in 2024, following a report indicating that the commander in chief and his staff are attempting to assuage concerns about his future political prospects.
The Washington Post reported at the time that Biden and members of his inner circle have been telling allies that he plans to run again — an attempt to address concerns about whether he could commit to another presidential campaign given his age and ease worries Republicans returning to power.
One of Biden’s close allies, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, said Sunday that he expects the President to run for reelection in two years.
“As of now, it is my understanding that the President is seeking a second term,” he said on Fox.
CNN reported earlier this year that a significant number of both Democrats and Republicans currently hope to see their parties find alternatives to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the next presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS in January and February. But very few have specific candidates in mind, underscoring how distant — and potentially mutable — the 2024 race remains.
Unlike Biden, Trump has yet to officially announce another bid for the White House, though he frequently teases another run and still maintains influence over his party’s direction more than a year after leaving office.
Joaquin Ciria spent three decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Now at 61, this San Francisco man will be freed
Ciria was exonerated Monday, exactly 32 years to the date of his arrest, following an extensive review and investigation by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Innocence Commission, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said in an online statement.
The 61-year-old was convicted of murder in 1991 for the shooting death of Felix Bastarrica. There was no physical evidence linking Ciria to the crime, but San Francisco police inspectors focused on him “based on rumors on the street and statements of the getaway driver, George Varela,” according to the district attorney.
Bastarrica had actually been killed by a mutual acquaintance of Varela and Ciria, the Northern California Innocence Project said in a news release.
In exchange for complete immunity, Verala testified he drove Ciria to and from the crime scene, but was under extreme pressure from police to identify Ciria at the time, despite Ciria having two alibi witnesses who were never heard at trial, the district attorney said.
“It’s very hard, you know? Seeing your kid; them taking away your son. It’s sad, seeing your child growing up by himself,” Ciria’s mother Yojana Paiz told CNN affiliate KPIX. “But finally, we’re here. We’re at the end now. He’s gonna be out. Whatever God has for us, we have to accept it.”
Since the beginning of Ciria’s imprisonment, Paiz said she stayed in touch with her son through regular visits and phone calls.
Ciria’s attorney, Ellen Eggers and Northern California Innocence Project attorney Paige Kaneb brought his case to the DA’s Innocence Commission for review and after a four-month investigation, Boudin made his decision to exonerate Ciria.
New evidence Ciria’s legal team provided showed he was convicted bases on false testimony for another man’s crime, the district attorney said. Ciria’s case was the first reviewed by the Innocence Commission since its formation in 2020.
Stolen holidays and memories
“Promoting justice in our legal system requires us not only to move forward but also to look backwards,” Boudin said. “Wrongful convictions cause concentric circles of harm: to the wrongfully convicted, to the crime victims who were told a false story and re-traumatized, to the jurors who unwittingly participated in the injustice, and to the integrity of the system as a whole. When someone has been wrongly convicted, it is incumbent upon prosecutors to correct that injustice.”
Ciria is currently in the San Francisco County jail after being transported from Folsom Prison last week, Eggers told CNN and is expected to be released within the week.
Under California state law, Ciria is entitled to financial compensation, at a rate of $140 per day for the 32 years he spent in prison, which amounts to a little over $1.6 million dollars, according to the California Victim Compensation Board.
“As a result of this wrongful conviction, the State stole 32 birthdays, 32 Christmases, 32 years in which he could not be with his son for all the special moments,” Kaneb said in an online statement. “Yet Joaquin has kept his big heart and easy smile and is full of joy as he looks forward to starting his life again.”