Sam Bankman-Fried hävdar att han känner sig trasig och hatad

• Sam Bankman-Fried vidhöll att han gjorde vad han tyckte var rätt för FTX.
• Den tidigare FTX VD:n hävdar att han inte missbrukade FTX kundmedel.
• Bankman-Fried sitter för närvarande i fängelse inför rättegången i 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 delad dem med New York Times. Skrivningarna ska ha varit en del av ett utkast som den före detta miljardären planerade att lägga upp på X (tidigare Twitter).

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.

Se vad mer utkastet på 15 000 ord sa. https://t.co/aytIXTOi3W pic.twitter.com/jUvFDWFe9g

— 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 skrev i sitt utkast:

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 har åtalats för flera brott, inklusive bedrägeri, penningtvätt, användande av klientkontanter utan tillstånd och brott mot lagar om kampanjfinansiering. Den före detta kryptomiljardären sitter för närvarande i fängelse inför rättegången nästa månad.

A federal judge recently revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail for vittnesmanipulation. Den tidigare FTX-vd:n ska ha läckt dokument relaterade till Ellison, som förväntas vittna mot Bankman-Fried.

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