The previous CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has printed a Substack publication on Jan. 12, 2023, and the primary put up is titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview.” Within the put up, SBF maintains that an “excessive, fast, focused crash precipitated by the CEO of Binance made Alameda bancrupt.” The weblog put up doesn’t point out the allegations made by his former co-workers, ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang. The disgraced former FTX government additionally carried out a one-on-one interview at his residence in Palo Alto with Puck Information reporter Theodore Schleifer.
Former FTX CEO Fights Fraud Prices, Maintains Innocence in New Substack Submit
The co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has been extra vocal in current instances since his arrest and preliminary courtroom appearances earlier than a Southern District of New York choose. On January 12, 2023, SBF started a Substack publication referred to as “SBF’s Substack” and printed his first put up concerning the fall of FTX and Alameda Analysis, the quantitative buying and selling agency that he based in 2019. Within the first weblog put up, SBF insists that he didn’t steal any buyer funds.
“I didn’t steal funds, and I definitely didn’t stash billions away,” the previous CEO of FTX wrote. SBF additionally emphasised that he didn’t “run Alameda for the previous few years.” He said that three components contributed to the autumn of FTX and Alameda, together with Alameda’s steadiness sheet swelling and Alameda’s failure to “sufficiently hedge its market publicity.” Moreover, SBF believes that the ultimate nail within the coffin for FTX was pushed by Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao. Within the Substack weblog put up, SBF stated:
In November 2022, an excessive, fast, focused crash precipitated by the CEO of Binance made Alameda bancrupt.
A lot of SBF’s Substack weblog put up is much like earlier interviews he gave earlier than his arrest. There may be little new info within the weblog put up compared to what the FTX co-founder stated throughout his media tour in mid-November 2022. Whereas SBF insists that he “didn’t steal funds,” the previous FTX government doesn’t tackle the allegations made by his former co-workers, ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang, who’ve reported monetary misconduct and the commingling of FTX buyer funds with Alameda Analysis beginning in 2019.
SBF Reaches Out to New CEO to Lend a Hand However Stays Remoted and Lonely
SBF additionally talked about that after transferring FTX US to John J. Ray III, the change was nonetheless solvent. “It’s ridiculous that FTX US customers haven’t been made complete and gotten their funds again but,” SBF commented in his weblog put up. The previous FTX CEO, who has been disgraced, additionally mentioned his dealings with the brand new FTX CEO Ray with Puck Information reporter Theodore Schleifer. The Puck reporter met SBF at his dad and mom’ residence in Palo Alto, California, the place SBF greeted him sporting his government-issued ankle bracelet. SBF’s German shepherd “Sandor” was additionally current on the home.
Schleifer reported that SBF reached out to the brand new FTX CEO John Ray “six or seven instances” to supply his assist. The Puck reporter famous that Ray has “stored his distance” from the previous FTX CEO. The interview highlights that SBF is lonely and remoted and he’s “relieved to have regained entry to the Web,” Schleifer reported. The Puck reporter had identified SBF earlier than the change’s demise as they chatted within the fall of 2020. Schleifer wrote “we have been each within the efficient altruism motion” and they’d “textual content each few months about politics or philanthropy.” The interview was two-and-a-half hours lengthy and SBF mentioned his hardship of being a vegan when he was in jail in The Bahamas and consuming numerous peanut butter.
Whereas awaiting his October 3, 2023 trial within the Southern District of New York and dealing with eight counts of economic fraud and conspiracy expenses, SBF continues to play “plenty of video video games.” In response to Schleifer, SBF’s sport of alternative today is “Storybrook Brawl,” however the disgraced FTX co-founder doesn’t use his gaming deal with or converse with different gamers. Regardless of enjoying video video games, “it doesn’t actually totally distract from what’s occurring,” SBF instructed Schleifer.
Though Schleifer notes “that there will not be many actual folks for [SBF] to speak to anymore,” the interview doesn’t tackle the accusations made by Ellison and Wang. The Puck interview briefly mentions that each co-workers have “flipped on [SBF]” and that FTX’s director of engineering, “[Nishad Singh], is predicted to do the identical.”
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