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Anthropic received early funding from effective-altruism adherents including Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, who is serving a 25-year term in prison after conviction on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Another former banker sentenced in one of the biggest scandals of the financial crisis has had his conviction overturned following a long-running legal battle.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

I’d want to whip the votes to make sure you could get a conviction before even starting down that road.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

These rooms powerfully evoke what Kaplan in the catalog calls America’s “restless forward motion, powered by the conviction that tomorrow’s design would solve today’s problems.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

A short time after the trial and conviction, one of Ames's disillusioned CIA colleagues reflected on the larger meaning of his capture and sentencing.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

All convictions in the United States were overturned in 2022 after an appeal court ruled that there was insufficient evidence that the traders' requests had broken any rules or laws.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

It comes after the same UK court overturned five convictions of ex-Barclays bankers in the rate rigging trials earlier this week.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

A corruption scandal last decade, before Mr. Fain took office, culminated in convictions of 11 UAW officials and a federal court appointment of an independent monitor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Following Brain's convictions three decades later, the Diocese of Sheffield struck a very different tone, announcing an independent safeguarding review into "institutional failures".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

When 1 am once again whole, I shall visit those factory people; I have deep and abiding convictions concerning social action.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole