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Disgraced Tech Bro Sam Bankman-Fried Blames His EX-LOVER For FTX Collapse And $32BN Loss, Admits He Lied About Being Moral And Calls Ethics A 'Dumb Game We Woke Westerners Play'
The Daily Mail ^ | 11/17/22 | Vanessa Serna and Lewis Pennock

Posted on 11/17/2022 8:05:19 AM PST by Enlightened1

Disgraced tech bro Sam Bankman-Fried has sensationally confessed his commitment to ethics was ‘a front’ and he ‘feels bad’ for those who were ‘f***** by it’ - as he blamed his ex-girlfriend for the FTX crisis.

The founder of the failed crypto platform, whose collapse has cost consumers billions of dollars, admitted his efforts to appear moral during the company’s heyday were a ‘dumb game we woke Westerners play’.

He sensationally said blame for the disaster at FTX lay with Alameda Research, the trading firm which he founded in 2017 and was run by his on-off lover, Harry Potter enthusiast Caroline Ellison. 

Bankman-Fried, who owned a majority stake in Alameda, installed Ellison, 28, as CEO of the multibillion dollar fund in October 2021 despite her limited professional trading experience.

He appears to accept FTX lent Alameda billions of dollars in clients’ money without their knowledge or permission. The crisis at FTX was triggered when customers rushed to withdraw their funds but the company couldn't pay out.

Bankman-Fried, 30, lived in a $40 million penthouse in the Bahamas, a tax haven, with Ellison in a 10-person 'polycule' made up his inner circle of FTX and Alameda executives.

He made his latest string of sensational comments in a car crash interview with Vox reporter Kelsey Piper.

Serious questions are now being asked of SEC chair Gary Gensler who is facing scrutiny over his relationship with the disgraced crypto wunderkind  - and the lack of oversight of the crypto market that Gensler has himself described as the Wild West.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; cryptocurrency; ftx; girlfriend; lied; sambankmanfried; samebankmanfried
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1 posted on 11/17/2022 8:05:19 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Sociopath

Only sorry cause he got caught


2 posted on 11/17/2022 8:09:23 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable (Woke Fascists are a threat to our republic )
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To: Enlightened1

Sociopath

Only feels bad because he got caught

This piece of crap is never sorry

Also it took 32 billion dollars to get this pencil arms laid

Pathetic


3 posted on 11/17/2022 8:10:57 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable (Woke Fascists are a threat to our republic )
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To: Enlightened1

This guy will be the PERFECT democrat presidential candidate in 10 years! Bankman 2032!


4 posted on 11/17/2022 8:10:57 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: Enlightened1

This guy, he seems kind of shady. Not sure I would trust him.


5 posted on 11/17/2022 8:12:21 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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I understand that he placed his trust in his friend and that it was actually her that lost the money in bad bets.

Now put them both in prison for the rest of their lives.

6 posted on 11/17/2022 8:12:35 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Enlightened1

Hopefully they bring him back for prosecution.


7 posted on 11/17/2022 8:12:42 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Enlightened1

Get woke, go broke. Enjoy prison, cupcake.


8 posted on 11/17/2022 8:13:56 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Enlightened1
Earlier today, also from UK Daily Mail:

Disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried blames his EX-GIRLFRIEND for FTX collapse and loss of $32BN - as he admits he lied about being moral and calls ethics a 'dumb game we woke Westerners play'

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9 posted on 11/17/2022 8:14:27 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Enlightened1

What a spineless schmuck. You are the head honcho, and a fish rots from the head.


10 posted on 11/17/2022 8:14:31 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Enlightened1

So... where did they squander the $32Billion?


11 posted on 11/17/2022 8:15:49 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare its ? And the ambassador to Ukraineelf)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

also see

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/sometimes-life-creeps-ftx-owner-dem-donor-sam-bankman-fried-blames-ex-girlfriend-collapse-company-32-billion-loss/


12 posted on 11/17/2022 8:17:04 AM PST by bitt ( <IMG SRC=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Enlightened1

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4109792/posts


13 posted on 11/17/2022 8:17:19 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Enlightened1

“Trust is the foundation of all relationships.”


14 posted on 11/17/2022 8:18:49 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Enlightened1
Apparently the workers had a poly amorous little sex club masquerading as crypto. currency operation.

Taking a look at the pics, it's really gross thinking of these losers having group sex at work but its absolutely terrifying thinking about them reproducing.

15 posted on 11/17/2022 8:19:00 AM PST by rdcbn1
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Millions of words will be written in weeks and months to come but only one word would suffice for Sam, his girlfriend and his associates and that word is “crooks”.

Shaq and Brady and Giselle will spend millions on lawyers defending themselves for promoting Sam and his pals and they could end up in bankruptcy.

Shaq was good at throwing a ball and so was Brady. That’s all. The investors who invested in this punk Sam because of Shaq or Brady or Giselle deserve to lose their asses.


16 posted on 11/17/2022 8:19:16 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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Millions of words will be written in weeks and months to come but only one word would suffice for Sam, his girlfriend and his associates and that word is “crooks”.

Shaq and Brady and Giselle will spend millions on lawyers defending themselves for promoting Sam and his pals and they could end up in bankruptcy.

Shaq was good at throwing a ball and so was Brady. That’s all. The investors who invested in this punk Sam because of Shaq or Brady or Giselle deserve to lose their asses.


17 posted on 11/17/2022 8:19:16 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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The crisis at FTX was triggered when customers rushed to withdraw their funds but the company couldn't pay out.

...in other words...your typical, run-of-the-mill...Ponzi scheme?

18 posted on 11/17/2022 8:23:46 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Enlightened1

Sam Bankman-Fried fails to grasp that ethics, which he calls “a dumb game woke Westerners play”, is likely the only thing keeping someone from extracting repayment from him in blood and body parts.


19 posted on 11/17/2022 8:26:24 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Cen-Tejas
Shaq and Brady and Giselle will spend millions on lawyers defending themselves for promoting Sam and his pals and they could end up in bankruptcy.

Interesting observation. I wonder if the recent divorce of the Brady's is related to the FTX collapse.

20 posted on 11/17/2022 8:34:21 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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