Sam Bankman-Fried beweert dat hij zich blut en gehaat voelt

• Sam Bankman-Fried beweerde dat hij deed wat hij dacht dat goed was voor FTX.
• De voormalige CEO van FTX beweert dat hij geen misbruik heeft gemaakt van het geld van klanten van FTX.
• Bankman-Fried zit momenteel in de gevangenis in afwachting van zijn proces in oktober.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s time under house arrest appears to have been spent reflecting on the events of the past few months. The former FTX CEO bared his emotions in a 250-page document he wrote while in his parents’ California home. The 31-year-old disgraced investor noted that he felt “broke” and “hated” and believes there is nothing he could do to improve the public’s unfavorable opinion of him.

Bankman-Fried’s personal writings were leaked by Tiffany Fong, who later gedeeld ze met de New York Times. De geschriften zouden deel uitmaken van een concept dat de voormalige miljardair van plan was op X (voorheen Twitter) te plaatsen.

Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried used, among other things, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry and Rihanna music videos to defend himself while under house arrest after FTX failed. He also linked to Fun.'s “We Are Young” video.

Kijk wat er nog meer in het concept van 15.000 woorden stond. https://t.co/aytIXTOi3W pic.twitter.com/jUvFDWFe9g

— De New York Times (@nytimes) 15 september 2023

Bankman-Fried’s draft covered different topics, including the legal team handling FTX’s bankruptcy case. In one of the drafts, Bankman-Fried reflected on his time at the failed exchange, claiming he “did what I thought was right.”

According to reports, the posts included private information regarding Bankman-Fried’s relationship with Caroline Ellison, who served as the CEO of Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried’s trading firm. The drafts claimed that Ellison rejected Bankman-Fried’s requests to cancel Alameda’s trading hedges, which led the FTX founder to respond with “the meanest thing I’ve ever said to her.”

Furthermore, Sam Bankman-Fried appeared to have pushed the blame for FTX’s collapse on some of his colleagues, especially Ellison. Authorities claim Bankman-Fried moved the exchange’s customer funds to Alameda Research to bolster its balance sheet after suffering significant losses from numerous unsuccessful trades.

Bankman-Fried schreef in zijn ontwerp:

She continually avoided talking about risk management, dodging my suggestions until it was too late. […] Every time that I reached out with suggestions, it just made her feel worse. I’m sure that being exes didn’t help.

In another part of the leaked documents, Bankman-Fried claims he was unaware that Alameda was taking money from customers into an account dubbed “fiat@” until he overheard several of his staff members and Ellison discussing it months before FTX collapsed.

Sam Bankman-Fried is beschuldigd van meerdere strafbare feiten, waaronder bankfraude, het witwassen van geld, het zonder toestemming gebruiken van contant geld van klanten en het overtreden van wetten op het gebied van campagnefinanciering. De voormalige crypto-miljardair zit momenteel in de gevangenis voorafgaand aan zijn proces volgende maand.

A federal judge recently revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail for getuige van geknoei. De voormalige CEO van FTX zou documenten hebben gelekt met betrekking tot Ellison, die naar verwachting zal getuigen tegen Bankman-Fried.

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