Sam Bankman-Fried

SBF was found guilty in November on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, but won’t face a second trial at all after feds told the judge that in the ‘interest of expediency’ it would drop six charges related to SBF’s second trial – including conspiracy to bribe foreign officials, and bank fraud.

A former partner of Farmington State Bank, the tiny rural bank embroiled in the FTX scandal, is now building the rails for CBDCs in the Middle East and beyond. Their recent activities may finally reveal the true motives behind Sam Bankman-Fried's and his allies' use of Farmington, with major implications for the coming Digital Dollar.
Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar.

Investors who lost money are pursuing a class action lawsuit against celebrities who were involved in marketing campaigns for FTX, including Tom Brady, his ex-wife Gisele, comedian Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal, NBA legend Steph Curry and tennis star Naomi Osaka.

Bankman-Fried personally gave $40 million to politicians and political-action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mostly to Democrats and liberal-leaning groups. Ryan Salame, another top FTX executive, donated more than $23 million, mainly to Republicans and conservative groups.

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade: On December 21, Big Law firm Sullivan & Cromwell filed a conflict disclosure with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, where it was hoping to be officially appointed as lead counsel for the bankruptcy estate of Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed crypto house of cards – FTX, […]

Critics question who is being protected by the DOJ's effective silencing of Samuel bankman-Fried (SBF). His father, Joseph Bankman, is a tax professor and was a paid employee of his son’s company. His mother reportedly worked with him on some of these massive donations to Democrats.

An interviewer asked SBF,why there was no more Bitcoin for customers to withdraw, and suggested it was because the Bitcoin did not actually exist as SBF was just letting customers buy notional or imaginary tokens rather than Bitcoin. SBF responded by saying, "I believe that what you're saying is part of what happened."

The Ukrainian government mysteriously disappeared online records of its fundraising arrangement with the FTX crypto scam just days before the scandal erupted. The initiative claims to have raised $60 million for Ukraine, but where did the money go? The demise of FTX, the fifth-biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume in 2022, and the second-largest by holdings, has sent a wave of chaos through global financial markets.  As the turbulence grows, the government of Ukraine is conducting an ongoing cleanup and […]

Sources reported that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried transferred $4 billion from his FTX crypto exchange to Alameda, his crypto trading firm, earlier in 2022 without telling anyone. Losses related to FTX spread beyond the firm itself and to stocks tied to cryptocurrencies.