Sam Bankman-Fried's Top Deputies Were Ex Regulators Pushing FTX in DC
"Can you please accommodate a request to have a brief discussion on this? Many thanks for considering," an email obtained by the LA Times said.
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"Can you please accommodate a request to have a brief discussion on this? Many thanks for considering," an email obtained by the LA Times said.
The cryptocurrency billionaire employed several former regulators who aided his efforts to woo top CFTC officials, emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times show.
Disgraced former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried developed deep ties with regulators he wanted to oversee the crypto industry, emails show.
Sam Bankman-Fried hired a handful of former federal regulators who put him in touch with officials at the agency he hoped would ultimately regulate the crypto industry.
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Before his arrest in mid-December, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader who sought more regulation of cryptocurrency and wanted his industry to be part of the mainstream financial system. But now that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Securities and