[5] He was also employed at FTX, the cryptocurrency company founded by his son, Sam Bankman-Fried, who is an entrepreneur and convicted felon.
[10] Early in his career, he taught at the USC Gould School of Law and practiced with the Los Angeles firm of Tuttle & Taylor.
[14] Bankman also hosted a podcast called WellnessCast for Stanford Law School to discuss "wellness and mental health within the legal profession.
"[15] In 2004, he and his colleagues developed a proposal for a California program called ReadyReturn, whereby citizens' income tax returns were filled out in advance, requiring only that the users make corrections.
The program failed to pass the California legislature by one vote, reportedly after lobbying efforts from tax software preparation company Intuit.
[18] In 2016, he lent his support to Senator Elizabeth Warren's Tax Filing Simplification Act along with 50 other law professors and economists.
[19] A letter with Bankman as the lead signatory states, "Much of the time and expense involved in tax filing is unnecessary.