#FTXUS Analysis - Thread 3
Following on from yesterday. Todays thread will focus on payments to #insiders made in the last 12 months prior to bankruptcy. Every time I look through the docs...I'm just amazed how spellbindly outrageous this whole shit show is.
In 12 months just over $25m was paid to insiders. I've summarised by quarter. 48% of payments went to undisclosed parties but since they are insiders and SBF only clipped a lazy $500k in his name...lets assume its him.
The stand out insider is the former CFTC commissioner #markwetjen who was paid $3.7million
This bloke has the best timing of anyone ever. As he managed to get #FTXUS to cut him a $1.93million cheque on the 9 November 2022.....2 days before bankruptcy.
How's many questions does that raise?
What happened ....was there a water cooler moment Wetjen overhead the #mooch talking shop with SBF Snr....and then hoofed it over to accounts with a box of chockys to sweet talk accounts into cutting him a cheque?
While you busy working out how many years salary at the CFTC #markwetjen FTX final cheque was...
Lets have a look at #brettharrison ...I didn't know, had no powers, no one listened and they threatened me with the sack...oh and I don't know wtf #FDIC is
#brettharrison sits in second place behind Wetjen with a tidy $2.876million for 12 months. Walking with $2.38m when he exited in Sep 2022....so much for fear of being sacked....his payout was 10x salary.
But actually....he didn't just get $2.8m. He actually got almost $4million. because he was paid another 2 payments of $534k from Paperbird, Inc in October 2022 after his exit.
For a self proclaimed innocent victim...he sure dgaf about customers or shareholders....anyone that forgives, backs this #muppet or uses any service he is involved in needs their head read.
#FTXUS shareholder analysis thread part 2
Yesterday I punched out a bunch of tweets re: the ownership of FTXUS aka #wrssilo I'm still working through the filings. I'm just going to post as and when I've got time....its going to be untidy but you know ...thats the I roll.
One thing I've scratched my head about is how did the FTX muppets end up with the shares in WRS directly in their name....since its the US operations of #FTX?
I haven't worked out why but I think I've worked out how.
Kroll scratched out a timeline and note that SBF, Gary and Nishad founded WRS (FTX US) in Jan 2020.
Not as a subsidiary...not as a branch office, majority owned/controlled entity...nope just straight up new shares to the Bro's.
@Annihil4tionGod it is. appears Series A Prefs subscribers also received Class A common when you sort the holdings you can see that the ratio c. 11:1 (common : Prefs). not all the names align as it appears that some subscribers nominated different entities...plus there's a tonne redacted
@Annihil4tionGod Taking a step back. So the capitalisation of FTSUS at liquidation was;
We know there was $400m raised this indicatively ties in with the 1.6B Class A common why the ratio to the Series A pref is 11:1 I have no idea.
@Annihil4tionGod There are a number of FTX employees that are holders of Class A Common shares but do not hold Series A prefs. I had to shuffle around the numbers a bit to work out why.
#bitfinex was also working with #coinapult we know this as they are referenced in the incident report when #coinapult was hacked in 2015.
So what happened with #coinapult. That's a great question...I'm glad you asked. In May 2015 (a couple months after the hack) they announced they were being 'integrated' into #cryptocapital and would no long be undertaking #kyc as they had a tip top fully regulated partner,
Obviously to effect such an important transaction #coinapult would have gone to great length to ensure their partner who was taking over the KYC and banking functions were who they said they were.
On 12 April. I asked a pretty basic question 9over and over and over)...where did #elsalvador get the $800m to make the bond repayment in January....nothing but crickets (as always)
So I thought I'd go and have a look at El Salvador's finances....I'm working through the IMF's 2021 article IV consultation report
Why am I going through the 2021 report and not the current one......thanks for asking that's a very good question....pretty simple answer its because #elsalvador has yet to provide authorisation for its release.
@threadreaderapp So I thought I'd add a couple of extra tweets to my thread re: the fake bank #bandenia. Last week I banged on about about some pretty easy to spot fudging of financials. Most scammers battle to read financial statements so they are not particularly good at fudging.
@threadreaderapp More problematic than the scammers crappy accounting is that mostly no one bothers to spend more than 2 mins looking. (remember... #celsius....anyone?) So here's some even dumber examples of the same fraudulent attempted alchemy.