$2BN of clients’ money is MISSING from collapsed crypto exchange FTX: Founder Sam Bankman-Fried denies secretly transferring $10BN to trading company run by his girlfriend
THE PLOT THICKENS
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly shuffled $10billion in funds to his trading firm Alameda Research, with about $2billion now missing
- Sources said that the CEO showed spreadsheets revealing the missing funds from FTX, which along with Alameda declared bankruptcy on Friday
- Bankman-Fried denied making the secret transfers to his crypto trading firm, which is run by his girlfriend, Caroline Ellison
- He declined to comment about the missing funds and said his firm had ‘confusing internal labeling’
- The SEC, which has been criticized for not acting sooner, is investigating FTX’s handling of customer funds, as well its crypto-lending activities
Founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to the trading company Alameda Research, which is run by his girlfriend Caroline Ellison, Reuters reports.
A large portion of that total has since disappeared, they said. One source put the missing amount at about $1.7 billion. The other said the gap was between $1 billion and $2 billion.
WHATS A $BILLION HERE OR A $BILLION THERE? I WONDER IF THIS WOULD BE GETTING MORE PRESS COVERAGE IF FTX WASN’T THE 2ND LARGEST ELECTION CONTRIBUTOR TO THE DNC?? AND HOW ABOUT THAT $7.5 MILLION DOLLAR BET THAT DJT LOSES IN 2024 – THAT’S GOTTA BE LEGIT BUSINESS – RIGHT!