Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: 'I Didn’t Knowingly Commingle Funds'
Customers were left with unresolved questions and missing monies after Sam Bankman-FTX Frieds enterprise collapsed. However, Bankman-highly Frieds anticipated Wednesday interview with The New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin did not answer many of those issues, nor did it give the mea culpa that many had hoped for from the 30-year-old former crypto billionaire. Bankman-Fried contended that FTXs demise was the product of an unforeseen market fall and that he had not willfully committed any crimes. Against the advice of his lawyers, he joined the debate electronically from his home in the Bahamas. “I never attempted to conduct fraud,” Bankman-Fried stated. Bankman-FTX.com Frieds and FTX US exchanges were once worth $40 billion combined, but the businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month after a WikiFX investigation revealed balance sheet discrepancies in FTXs trading arm, Alameda Research. Preliminary judicial hearings suggest that billions of dollars in FTX customer cash are still missing. Bankman-Fried admitted to feeling uncomfortable when the WikiFX piece was published on Nov. 2, but he “didnt think it was existential for FTX.” According to one explanation, Bankman-Fried unlawfully transferred those monies between the FTX exchange and Alameda, where they were lost in a series of disastrous trades. When Sorkin repeatedly asked Bankman-Fried