Tag: Bahamas

Crypto collapse: Regulatory altruism at FTX — Sam Bankman-Fried arrested

While I’ve been sick with a bug for a few days, David was able to finish up and post our latest. This one is on his blog. [David Gerard]

“Take the money and run” is a plan with just two parts. Sam Bankman-Fried completely failed to get around to the second part.  

After SBF’s extensive tour of confessing financial crimes to anyone from the press who would listen, the Weasel of Wall Street was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. on Monday, December 12, where he awaits extradition.

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Declaration of John Jay Ray — FTX is worse than Enron

John Jay Ray III took over FTX in the wee hours of November 11. Hours later, he filed for Chapter 11 in a Delaware court.

The new CEO filed his first-day declaration this morning. It’s incredible. David Gerard and I summarize it — this one is on David’s blog. [David Gerard]

  • In his 40-year career, Ray, who oversaw the Enron liquidation, has never seen “such a complete failure of corporate controls.”  
  • Ray has divided SBF’s empire into four silos, but the accounting is all unreliable because he’s gotten the numbers from SBF. 
  • Ray and his team will have to create a balance sheet and financial statements from scratch using what records they have of cash transactions.
  • FTX Digital Markets, the company’s Bahamas subsidiary, filed a for Chapter 15 in SDNY. Ray’s team is asking the court to move the Chapter 15 case to Delaware. 
  • Ray thinks the filing in SDNY was shenanigans by SBF and unnamed agents of the Bahamas government!
  • SBF’s late night DMs with a Vox reporter, published the next day, make it looks like he was in on the plot.
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