The timing is transparent, given all of the political donations organized by FTX Cryptocurrency CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for politicians, mostly Democrats, in office.
On the day before he was scheduled to give testimony to congress, a testimony likely to be entertaining with representatives asking specific questions about political contributions by the known fraud MBS to other specific members of congress, the cryptocurrency executive is arrested in the Bahamas.
(Via Daily Mail) – Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, has been arrested.
The crypto billionaire, 30, was arrested in The Bahamas – where he has been hiding out since his $32 billion empire came crashing down last month – and he is now facing criminal charges in the US.
American prosecutors have filed the unspecified charges against the FTX founder, and are ‘likely to request his extradition.’
In a statement, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said: ‘The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law.
‘While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, The Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere.’ (read more)
Goodbye, Sam.
We’ll all miss you.
You were a good friend.
“ I am not suicidal”
“Ongoing Investigation”
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Bingo. “It’s our policy not to comment on these matters, and we take very seriously our responsibility to protect the integrity of the investigation.”
Betcha they don’t put him in the DC gulag.
D33p stat3 chaff and countermeasures…
And the beat goes on……
OPM funds 0’Bama’s corrupt DC swamp…
Video cams suddenly malfunction in the area of his cell in 3…2..
Since he could cause political damage will he be held in a high security prison? Breath Fried breath!
Arkancide
Even if this guy doesn’t slip on a bar of soap, and “die suddenly”, no body will be able to comment due to ongoing investigations.
If anyone knows what the results of this mess call me at 911
Me thinks he was arrested to protect him and to provide cover for why he cannot be there in person tomorrow…no testimony, no suicide, no murder…”nothing to see here folks…move along… move along…”
Why didn’t they arrest him when he was doing interviews with news organizations or speaking in this country ?
It’s clearly obvious he is being protected and shielded by those who used this short circuited MIT stooge
Someone is being protected and it isn’t him. This will be buried until well after the 2024 election, or forever.
He would have fingered a lot of politicians who played a part in the scam. Arrest will prevent any public testimony regarding who, how much, and when. Look for an info lockdown and coverup. Declaration of a threat to national security will emerge. How do I know? I don’t, but you bet on it.
The fact is that this SBF is a very “connected” actual genius capable of rigorous hard science technical achievement, but one has to actually use at least the official US gov approved propaganda outlet aka Wikipedia, to know this.
What got much exposure was the few recent interviews to establish himself as a brain-addled simpleton who paid no attention to detail and even if he did he didn’t understand anything and was being used, abused and excused.
As soon as that was achieved he’s now “taken into custody”. Anything further that he says (if at all) will be continued nonsense about perverted geeks and their irrelevant shenanigans.
Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia, just so we know what we’re dealing with:
“He is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors at Stanford Law School. [<—Lawfare op] His aunt Linda P. Fried is the current dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.{<—covID op] His brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, is a former Wall Street trader and the former director of the non-profit Guarding Against Pandemics[<—!] and its associated political action committee (PAC)[<—funding control].
Bankman-Fried attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students. He attended high school at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California. From 2010 to 2014, Bankman-Fried attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, he lived in a coeducational group house called Epsilon Theta. In 2014, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a minor in mathematics.”
Do the math…
Imagine having the largest resource of money in the world. The most powerful technology in the world. The most powerful military in the world. Control of all the media in the world.
What would you do with all that power and money?
Joe Xiden: “No comment“
Everyone in Congress: “I don’t recall. “
Make it impossible to ever lose it.
Buy a loft on Manhattan, farm in Mitchell County, NC, oceanfront property in NC, buy a new Royal Enfield 650, ’71 Porsche 911s, ’66 Corvair Corsa convertible, early 80’s Rogers Super Londoner drums, endow a new MAGA college, travel to Russia and Chile.
Man who knows what he wants
Exactly what he wants
Vote democrat?
Try to wipe out the only people that could ever take it back from you! First, create division in their countries mostly through racial tension. Second, use your money and power to buy politicians and pass laws to the detriment of the host population like hart celler act. Third, promote birth control, permiscuity, race mixing and abortion. Fourth, make it damn near impossible to afford a family. It is a soft genocide of a population, and that is exactly what they are doing in the USA.
Move over Epstein, McAfee here comes the Fried guy.
I did a keyword search today and was surprised to find Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive
SBF was a useful idiot but he is now just a liability so Comrade Garland is sending him to the Gulag. He might be there a while.
This guy REALLY likes to talk, and many in congress were probably sweating buckets over that loose of a tongue. At least they could have made the arrest less conspicuous, but then why should they when they know nothing will happen to them?
Where is the beautiful little sweety-cakes that assisted him?
you’re overdue for your annual eye exam, Texas
There is an odds bodkins, most definitely.
Cooperating with the “prosecution”, of course, using the expert facilities of the Clinton syndicate legal expertise, my good Texas midget…
I hear Lin Wood is on the case 🙂
Answer me this, why not Brazil, no extradition.
Maybe Brazil would not be good.
https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2022/12/12/10-questions-for-ftx-ceo-john-j-ray-iii-from-a-securities-lawyer/
That’s some good stuff. From your link:Securities lawyer has questions for John J. Ray III.
In the bankruptcy filings you show a balance sheet for Alameda. That balance sheet shows loans from Alameda to insiders at FTX in the following amounts:
Sam Bankman-Fried, personal loan: $1 billionPaper Bird, a company controlled by Bankman-Fried, loan: $2.3 billionNishad Singh, FTX director of engineering, personal loan: $543 millionRyan Salame, FTX executive, personal loan: $55 millionSo, that’s right around $4 billion drained from Alameda by Bankman-Fried and his colleagues. Where did all that liquidity come from for Alameda to have $4 billion in cash to lend to Bankman-Fried and the others?
And
A blockchain research group called Arkham Intelligence published a report listing the largest withdrawals from FTX in the days leading up to the FTX bankruptcy. That report shows a trading firm called Jane Street managed to withdraw $24 million from FTX on the eve of the bankruptcy.
As you know, Bankman-Fried and [former Alameda Research CEO] Caroline Ellison both got their start at Jane Street. That is quite a coincidence. Have you seen evidence of Bankman-Fried or other FTX insiders tipping off favored customers to get their money out of FTX before it was too late?
And
You have filed a motion in the bankruptcy court seeking to keep the creditors list secret. This is highly unusual. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the public has a First Amendment right to know what is going on in our court system, and secrecy of this kind can lead to cynicism about what might be happening behind closed doors.
Your declaration in the bankruptcy court states that FTX had the worst corporate governance you had ever seen and that it lacked meaningful regulatory compliance systems, record-keeping and financial reporting systems. It sounds like FTX was the absolutely ideal platform for bad actors to hide proceeds of illegal activities or engage in money laundering, tax evasion and other financial crimes.
So, here is my question: Has your team discovered any FTX customer accounts that were used by drug cartels, terrorist organizations, illegal arms dealers, Russian government officials or oligarchs, Chinese Communist Party officials, government officials of other repressive regimes, entities subject to sanctions, or Biden or Trump family members or any of their related companies?
More.
Watch out for the Bermuda Triangle
Considering that not just the Democrats went ALL-IN for this but possibly Disney… and with the prospect of JAIL TIME for the EVERYONE… I believe poor Sam will be Arkan-cided in the very near term.
My name is Sam Bankman-Fried, I have discovered information that can incriminated Hillary Clinton!
Wasn’t smart enough to hide where he couldn’t be touched or he’s been conned like the many he helped con.
Interesting article in the NY post about Sam Fried:
https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/disgraced-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-the-bahamas-after-apparent-charges-filed-in-us/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20221212?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=62c2f59fc39031af1b08e5f3&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts
“Who you got your money on Red?”
“I’ll take that short Q Tip head with pipe cleaners for arms. A full deck of smokes. Any takers?”
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I keep thinking that the parents of this weirdo and his freakazoid girlfriend must have been having drinks one night when they hatched an idea about what to do about launching some kind of career for their respective mutant children…
My next thought is that I think I’d spend a year or two in a federal resort if when I came out I could live nicely for the rest of my life on the billions that have been secreted away here and there…
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Will he get Jeffrey Epstein’s cell?
Perhaps.
But if not, he will certainly get his hospitality.
Well, they certainly saved the rope Epstein used. Garland is really big into recycling!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sec-chairman-gensler-scrubbed-evidence-clinton-soros-and-pelosi-meetings-foia-lawsuit
Lemme guess–the Bahamas won’t extradite, or the US won’t even ask.
If I were an official in the Bahamas, the last place I would extradite this patsy too would be the U.S. And to the SDNY? What kind of joke is this?
Once extradited SBK will be put into a Witness Protection Program and never be seen again. Just like that “smartest guy in the room” from Enron. Not dead, just hanging out. Meanwhile, the telly will show how his brains were blown out or some other kind of gruesome death. Meanwhile, “THEY LIVE.”
The story and plan “they” have come up with STIINKS. If people like Maxine Waters, Watermelon Head, and the Rest of the Rhino’s didn’t know what the jig concocted to cover their shrinking and flabby behinds, they’d be all over the airwaves bemoaning that they didn’t get some time asking him questions so that the defrauded would be assured our elected officials were doing their jobs. SPIT.
SDNY and the DC courts are where US justice went to die. They need to start farming out cases around the country by lottery.
I have a strong feeling that USG is bringing Sam “in from the cold.”
This moronic twit should have turned whistleblower, may be he could have saved his own rearend.
No, now when he is back in America he will find himself sitting in Epstein’s cell and all the cameras removed for repair.
Something’s missing here — or else just plain smells fishy …
How is it that this guy runs off with billion$ of dollar$ of other people’s money — and takes up in a place with an extradition treaty with the US?
Why didn’t he do like every other jew criminal and flee to the homeland — which rarely extradicts anyone to the US for any crime?
The SDNY will take every step necessary to contain any fallout from hitting Democrats and the Republicans who received trivial amounts are going to be destroyed.
Will he share a cell with the Pelosi hammer man, Depape?
Will low IQ Maxipad Waters post bail?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Just another Marxist hoax; this one to totally destroy the crypto-coin industry and trust in private industry so the government and the “Federal” Reserve can go full speed ahead to implement their own “digital” currency. The way you can tell it’s a Marxist hoax is only the Dimocrats walk away with money in their pockets and the “perps” are always sketchy characters with difficult to find background information.
Some interesting ripples about this whole FTX/SBF scenario … breadcrumbs that should be followed — but what are the odds that anyone will follow them?
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/12/investigative-reports/ftx-and-the-curious-history-of-farmington-state-bank/
https://protos.com/the-curious-case-of-ftx-and-farmington-state-bank-aka-moonstone/
From the wallstreetonparade link:
We scoured the filings in the FTX bankruptcy case to see if there was an inkling of how a law firm that was attempting to help FTX buy up other firms while FTX was reportedly looting customer accounts got hired for the bankruptcy court case.
In the same way Hobbes got run her own election. It’s the new normal.
Icebergs everywhere must be the new new normal. Nearer My God to Thee.
They’re going to need those 87 thousand IRS agents just to unravel FTX’s shell companies.
…So lawyers have requested Bankman-Fried to divulge nothing to the Congressional panel that could affect his ongoing defense & litigation…
Better hurry Congress, before the ‘glasses girl’ is unavailable also…
No wonder Bankman-Fried looks so not worried. The Dems will block with Justice & Intelligence assistance.
Can’t stand to look at his pictures. Can smell him through the monitor.
I’m just going to get ahead of the game and let everyone know that Sam Bankman Fried did NOT kill himself.
“There are NO coincidences BUT there are NO conspiracies”. NO way the feds put a case of this magnitude together this fast. He’s going to get a sweetheart deal as long as he does NOT vomit what he KNOWS about the shakedowns and money laundering op to Demonrat & RINO pols, the Ukraine and DemonRAT/Marxist Party..
I think this kid alive is a massive liability to the cartel. $10 bucks says he unexpectedly “dies suddenly”.
Will they let him keep his wig?
All very fishy!
Linc doesn’t need it anymore!
I suspect this clown will be arkancided
Sam Bankman didn’t kill himself.
Anyone know if Hillary is vacationing in the Bahamas ?? I hear it’s nice this time of year…
Arrest the parents too. They used some of that money to buy expensive properties
Just about EVERYTHING is becoming (or is) transparent now. Which leads to one of 3 choices: either they think we’re not watching, or they think we’re really stupid (or they are), or they think there’s nothing we can do about it.
He will be locked up until his congressional testimony would be useless or he suicides himself
“I was stunned by Epstein’s suicide, though probably not as much as Epstein himself.”
– John McAfee
Then McAfee was suicided after stating “Don’t believe it if you ever hear I committed suicide. I would never kill myself!”
If SBF survives, it’s because he has bribed enough connected people. PERIOD.