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In a trial during which he has suffered many low points, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried may have reached a nadir on day 15 as prosecutor Danielle Sassoon used his own words to show stark contradictions from his earlier testimony and a seemingly callous disregard for customer assets.\n\nThe tenacious, methodical Sassoon punctuated her more than four hours of interrogation on Monday afternoon with devastating audio and visual evidence of Bankman-Fried, including memos to himself, internal FTX and Alameda documents, and testimony to Congress that countered statements he\u2019d made under his defense team team\u2019s kinder questioning. In one instance, Sassoon showed a Signal chat in which Bankman-Fried expressed his interest in purchasing MAPs token, a direct refutation of his testifying that he \u201cwas not involved at all in any way\u201d in trading.\xa0\n\nIn another instance, she illustrated Bankman-Fried\u2019s alleged lack of regard for his Twitter followers, showing a screenshot of a Twitter DM with Kelsy Piper in which he admits to being insincere about his support for regulation that protects customers, telling Piper at one point, \u201cjust PR, fuck regulators.\u201d\n\nBankman-Fried claimed not to remember a spreadsheet with seven, different balance sheets created by then Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison to make the company\u2019s balance sheet look better than it was, a key piece of evidence that Ellison addressed in her testimony. Sassoon presented Google metadata showing Bankman-Fried had read the document.\xa0\n\nDressed in a light gray suit with a purple tie, Bankman-Fried claimed repeatedly not to remember other events or his responses in conversations, and he answered other questions with curt yeses and nos, unlike the windy, often convoluted responses that he provided to his defense team earlier in the day and on Monday. And as Sassoon continued to catch him in contradictions, he seemed to grow irritable and occasionally rocked back and forth in his chair.\xa0\n\nProsecutors will continue their cross-examination on Tuesday followed by redirect for one or two hours before the defense closes its case. The prosecution will then call two rebuttal witnesses.\n\nCatch up on Unchained\u2019s previous coverage:\xa0\n\nSBF Trial, Day 1: Possible Witnesses Include FTX Insiders, Big Names in Crypto, and SBF\u2019s Family\n\nSBF Trial, Day 2: DOJ Says Sam Bankman-Fried \u2018Lied\u2019 While Defense Claims His Actions Were \u2018Reasonable\u2019\n\nSBF Trial, Day 3: Why a True Believer in FTX Flipped Once He Learned One Fact\n\nSBF Trial, Day 4: SBF\u2019s Lawyers Annoy Judge Kaplan, While Wang Reveals Alameda\u2019s Special Privileges\n\nSBF Trial, Day 5: SBF's Defense Finally Found Its Legs, But Can It Counter Caroline Ellison?\n\nSBF Trial, Day 6: Caroline Ellison Recalls 'The Worst Week of My Life'\n\nSBF Trial, Day 7: In SBF Trial, Did the Defense Lose Its Opportunity With the Star Witness?\n\nSBF Trial, Day 8: Former BlockFi CEO Adds Credibility to Fraud Charges\n\nSBF Trial, Day 9: Nishad Singh Describes Former FTX CEO as a Bully and Big Spender\n\nSBF Trial, Day 10: Defense Struggles to Discredit Nishad Singh's Testimony\n\nSBF Trial, Day 11: How Alameda Got FTX Into a $9 Billion Hole\n\nSBF Trial, Day 12: Former FTX General Counsel Speaks Out Against SBF\n\nSBF Trial, Day 13: Before Judge, Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Gives Few Straight Answers\n\nSBF Trial, Day 14: Sam Bankman-Fried Casts Blame on Others for Key Decisions at FTX\n\nDid Sam Bankman-Fried Have Intent to Defraud FTX Investors?\n\nWhy These Lawyers Say It's Over for SBF-But His Only Hail Mary Is to Testify\n\nHere\u2019s How Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out\n\nSBF Trial: How Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case\n\nThe High-Stakes Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried Begins: What to Expect\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices