Sources: Musk-Twitter talks are stuck over debt-financing issue; Musk seeks to reserve rights to file a fraud suit over claims Twitter misled about bot accounts (Bloomberg)

CNBC:
The Southern District of New York charges SBF with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, money laundering, and more  —  – Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed eight seperate charges against disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried …

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Filing: Vermont says Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky repeatedly misled investors about the lender’s finances and used its own CEL token to bolster its balance sheet  —  The crypto lender admitted in a recent creditor call that it could not earn enough revenue to support its yields, the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation said.

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US banks backing Elon Musk’s Twitter deal plan to hold all $13B of debt on their balance sheets rather than selling it, amid a difficult debt market  —  Truncated timeline to sell $13 billion in debt—and strained market conditions—could make Twitter the biggest ‘hung’ buyout deal of all time

Bloomberg:
Twitter permanently bans @ElonJet, a bot sharing public data about Elon Musk’s jet, its creator, and ~30 of his accounts; Musk had said he would not ban the bot  —  Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …

New York Times:
Source: US prosecutors charge Sam Bankman-Fried with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering  —  A statement by the government of the Bahamas said Mr. Bankman-Fried was arrested after prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges.

Chris Stokel-Walker / MIT Technology Review:
Bot Sentinel: about 877K Twitter accounts were deactivated and 497K were suspended between October 27 and November 1, more than double the usual  —  Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest that more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while half a million more were suspended.