Federal Seizure Complicates Ownership of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Anthropic Stake

The feds seized a stake in Anthropic from Sam Bankman-Fried's friends. What happened to the shares?

Two associates of Sam Bankman-Fried invested in Anthropic. After they were sentenced for fraud, their shares entered a legal black hole. ANGELA WEIS/Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Sam Bankman-Fried's Anthropic stake was liquidated in bankruptcy court two years ago. The feds seized shares belonging to two co-conspirators, Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh. The government quietly sold those Anthropic shares last year. It's unclear where the money will go. A little over a year ago, the federal gove...