{"id":25744,"date":"2022-12-24T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/24\/sam-bankman-frieds-law-professor-parents-have-stuck-close-by-their-son-through-the-fallout-from-ftxs-collapse-heres-what-we-know-about-them\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:58:01","slug":"sam-bankman-frieds-law-professor-parents-have-stuck-close-by-their-son-through-the-fallout-from-ftxs-collapse-heres-what-we-know-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/24\/sam-bankman-frieds-law-professor-parents-have-stuck-close-by-their-son-through-the-fallout-from-ftxs-collapse-heres-what-we-know-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried’s law professor parents have stuck close by their son through the fallout from FTX’s collapse. Here’s what we know about them."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bankman is a professor of law at Stanford University. He’s described in his biography<\/a> on Stanford’s website as a “leading scholar in the field of tax law.”<\/p>\n

He’s also a clinical psychologist, having earned an degree in the field from Palo Alto University. New York Magazine<\/a> reported that he’s offered lunchtime sessions to first-year Stanford law students on cognitive behavioral therapy and managing anxiety.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Bankman told The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that Bankman was a paid FTX employee for 11 months, in which time he worked on charitable projects, and was not involved in running the company.<\/p>\n

Bankman helped FTX recruit its first lawyers, joined FTX executives in meetings on Capitol Hill, and advised his son as he prepared to testify before the House Financial Services Committee, The New York Times<\/a> reported. Bankman regularly flew to the Bahamas, per The Times.<\/p>\n

The Times also reported that Bankman organized an FTX event at Miami Heat’s FTX Arena in March, where local high school students pitched business ideas to a panel of judges.<\/p>\n

A tax-policy class that Bankman was set to teach<\/a> in the winter quarter was canceled<\/a>, and The Journal reported that he’d postponed the course to the spring<\/a>. A reading group he was set to lead has also been canceled, according to Stanford’s course catalog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n