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In the months before FTX collapsed and filed for bankruptcy court protection on Nov. 11, 2022, Bankman-Fried and his cohorts engaged in what the receivers call a “campaign of influence-buying” in which Bankman-Fried made “lavish and showy ‘investments’ ... to project financial strength and stability,” including through hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to charities and politicians and political action committees.

The specter of his most potentially incendiary plans were, after all, why the global markets briefly collapsed following the 2016 election.

Lyn Anne MacKinnon told the High Court in Edinburgh she heard what sounded like shots and then found her husband standing in the kitchen, before he collapsed into her arms.

Charlie Roberts was 22 months old when he collapsed with a "catastrophic" head injury at his home in Darlington in January, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Ironically, the fragmentation of news delivery has also delocalized us, as events near and far flow toward us in a torrent of collapsed context.