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belly-up cryptocurrency company FTX filed23 lawsuitsFriday against Anthony Scaramucci ( render above ) , his hedge monetary fund SkyBridge Capital , and other organizations , include Crypto.com andthe Mark Zuckerberg - backed lobbying group Fwd.us .
These case are an attempt to claw back money for FTX ’s creditor keep an eye on the company ’s collapse . FTX claims that the money targeted in these wooing was part of “ a campaign of influence - buying ” by founder and CEO Sam Bankman - Fried , conducted as the society was struggle to take on its own cashflow needs .
The cause claim , “ These ‘ investments ’ conveyed picayune to no benefit to debitor , and instead served only to shore up Bankman - Fried ’s standing in the cosmos of politics and traditional finance , ” which he then attempted to leverage as “ potential sources of equity investing in FTX to fill the hole in the balance tabloid and , therefore , keep his scheme afloat . ”
Since the company fit belly-up , FTX executive have been convicted of law-breaking , including fraud and money laundering . Bankman - Fried wassentenced to 25 year in prisonand is currentlyappealing his conviction .
In the case of SkyBridge and Scaramucci ( a financier who briefly serve well as White House communications director under Donald Trump ) , FTXannouncedthat it was learn a 30 % stakes in SkyBridge in September 2022 , just a few month before FTX go bankrupt and Bankman - Fried was halt .
The Fwd.us case , meanwhile , describes payments from FTX ’s embodied sibling Alameda Research to Fwd.us as “ part of an integrated architectural plan by the FTX Insiders to siphon money from FTX Group creditor and enhance their own personal reputations at the expense of creditors . ”
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