Tag Archives: Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)

The latest company in relation to the disgraced FTX founder to file for bankruptcy is the holding firm owned by him and Gary Wang – Emergent Fidelity Technologies. It’s headquartered in Antigua and Barbuda and reportedly had just $20 million in cash and no other assets. The filings for Chapter 11 were submitted late on Friday in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. According to Bloomberg, the company, co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang,...

Mark Wahlberg’s production company – Urealistic Ideas – reportedly partnered with the media outlet – Fortune – to release a documentary revealing the controversial relationship between Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Changpeng Zhao (CZ). The FTX crash caused a clash between the two, who accused each other of the catastrophic event. Making a Movie out of the Saga According to The Hollywood Reporter, broad society might soon watch a documentary depicting the spat between FTX’s...

One of the leading bitcoin miners – Argo Blockchain – announced that its CFO and Executive Director Alex Appleton resigned from his position. Several other crypto (or related) executives have abandoned their posts during the prolonged bear market. Such examples are Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, Alex Mashinsky of Celsius Network, Jesse Powell of Kraken, Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy, and many others. The Latest on the List Alex Appleton, who spent two and a half years at Argo...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tried to organize an in-person meeting with its current CEO John Ray weeks after being charged with fraud.  According to newly released emails filed by Federal prosecutors on Monday, Bankman-Fried said he wanted to be helpful to the asset recovery process where he could.  On December 30, he asked whether Ray’s team was responsible for draining assets from Alameda Research, which he’d read about in a media article.  “If this is your team moving...

UK’s Charity Commission announced inquiring into a charity called – Effective Ventures Foundation over its ties with FTX. According to the official press release, the charity reported its association with FTX as a serious incident because the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange was its “significant funder.” The non-ministerial department asserted that trustees submitted an RSI and sufficiently performed their duties and responsibilities. While trustees have not been involved in...

The disgraced founder and former CEO of FTX tried to contact and potentially influence the witness testimony of another exchange employee, according to the US Department of Justice. As such, the prosecutors want to introduce two new rules for SBF’s bail. Sam Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million bond in December last year, and he is confined to his parent’s house. However, he seems to have tried to contact FTX US General Counsel Ryne Miller on the encrypted messaging...

The United States Federal prosecutors have confiscated nearly $700 million in cash and assets connected to Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX. At the heart of the seizure are the 55 million Robinhood shares owned by Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang, valued at over $455 million. The ownership of the shares has been disputed even by BlockFi and FTX creditor Yonathan Ben Shimon who laid claims over them. The Feds, for one, believe they were purchased using allegedly...

The lawyers of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) цлаимед that three men drove their vehicle into a metal barricade outside his parents’ house in California.  The family of FTX’s former CEO recently admitted becoming a target of “intense media scrutiny, harassment,” and even physical threats. The Security Incident The gigantic crash of FTX caused multi-billion investor losses and turned SBF into one of the most infamous figures in the cryptocurrency space. The US authorities accused the...

FTX’s former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, has reiterated claims that FTX US is solvent following FTX debtors’ latest statements to the contrary.  According to Bankman-Fried, the group failed to account for customers’ bank balances, which bring the US entity’s assets well above its liabilities to customers.  Clearing the Air on FTX US In a substack post on Wednesday, Bankman-Fried said that certain statements on Tuesday from Sullivan and Cromwell (S&C; one of the law firms...

Brett Harrison, who stepped down from his role as President of the US branch of FTX just weeks before the implosion, finally broke the silence and shed some more light on his relationship with SBF. He added that neither he nor any of the other execs at FTX US knew about the fraud that SBF and his closest partners were perpetrating in the Bahamas. It Took Only a Few Months Harrison explained that he knew Sam Bankman-Fried from his days at Jane Street and had “fond memories” of...