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Mar 27, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
The CFTC lawsuit against Binance and founder CZ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Binance trades on its own exchange through "house accounts", says CFTC
Dec 27, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
NEW: Sam Bankman-Fried bought his 7.6% stake in Robinhood with funds borrowed from Alameda in April and May, he admitted in an Antigua court affidavit shortly before he was arrested

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… The circularity here is incredible.

Before FTX collapsed, SBF used these same Robinhood shares -- bought with money borrowed from Alameda, we now know -- as collateral for Alameda's own borrowings from other lenders😵‍💫

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Nov 22, 2022 32 tweets 6 min read
FTX first day bankruptcy hearing about to begin. Will be tweeting bits but this thread won't be comprehensive.

Agenda here: pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188450/0420… Over 500 people have dialled in to the Zoom call
Nov 17, 2022 17 tweets 7 min read
THE FTX FIRST DAY DECLARATION

New CEO John Ray is scathing about Sam Bankman-Fried's management.

"Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information."

pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188450/0420… Image SBF to be investigated in the course of the bankruptcy

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Nov 16, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
This DM interview with Sam Bankman-Fried is truly, truly -- truly -- wild SBF says the reason $8bn went missing is that all the money going to FTX used to get routed via Alameda...

... and he forgot that "stub" account existed

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Nov 12, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside FTX's shattered balance sheet

w/ @AntoineGara and @joshckoliver

ft.com/content/f05fe9… Documents exclusively obtained by the Financial Times show that as of Thursday, FTX Trading (the international exchange), had:

- $9bn of liabilities
- Just $900mn of "liquid" assets
- Another $8.7bn of thinly traded crypto and illiquid VC bets

ft.com/content/f05fe9…
Nov 11, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Sam Bankman-Fried's business empire has $5.4bn of illiquid venture capital investments *on paper*, a fifth of which is a single bitcoin mining business. It includes exposure to Elon Musk's SpaceX and Boring Company.

SCOOP w/ @joshckoliver

ft.com/content/db415a… The question now that FTX, FTX US and Alameda are in bankruptcy is what value can be recovered from that sprawling portfolio -- spanning almost 500 different crypto companies and venture capital funds

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Nov 11, 2022 14 tweets 5 min read
FTX FILES FOR CHAPTER 11, SAM BANKMAN-FRIED IS OUT
Nov 5, 2020 15 tweets 3 min read
Hearing in this case kicking off now:

Judge Paul Diamond to the Trump campaign lawyer:

Diamond: Are your observers in the counting room?
Trump campaign: "There's a non zero number of people in the room"