On the eleventh day of FTX founder Bankman-Fried’s historic trial, an knowledgeable witness reveals how a number of investments and loans have been created from FTX’s buyer funds.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial enters its eleventh day, because the prosecutor calls a number of witnesses to testify. At the moment’s witnesses included Professor Peter Easton, who was employed by the litigation help agency Brattle to investigate the accounts of FTX and Alameda Analysis.
Testimony of Peter D. Easton, Professor of Accountancy at Notre Dame
- Easton is proven a steadiness sheet of funds going from FTX to Alameda.
- 47 Alameda accounts obtained cash from FTX buyer accounts within the offered steadiness sheet.
- A number of investments by Bankman-Fried have been created from FTX buyer funds. This consists of:
- Investments to Anthony Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital and $100 million in Dave Inc. from a enterprise by Alameda.
- Nishad Singh took $1 million from buyer funds to make donations to the political committee MTG (Thoughts The Hole).
- Singh was given $96 million for property bills and investments.
- FTX used over $1 billion of buyer funds to purchase again shares from Binance.
- FTX lent funds to Celsius, Maple, Abra, Anchorage, Bitgo and TrueFi, all utilizing buyer funds.
Testimony of Chanel Medrano, Investigator on the US Lawyer’s Workplace
- NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal purchased out Binance’s stake in FTX.
- Bankman-Fried instructed Frank Chaparro, a finance reporter at Enterprise Insider, that he would cease lobbying.
A textual content message is proven, the place Bankman-Fried is badmouthing regulators.
The prosecutor additionally known as Cory Gaddis, a Google information custodian, as a witness. Nonetheless, Gaddis was solely requested to substantiate that Sam Bankman-Fried had a number of e mail accounts related to totally different domains.