FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Released on Bail (VIDEO)
Bankman-Fried will wait at his parents' home until he goes to trial for swindling investors.
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Bankman-Fried will wait at his parents' home until he goes to trial for swindling investors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) Wang, the former Chief Technology Officer of FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX), for their roles in a multiyear scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX, the crypto trading platform co-founded by Samuel Bankman-Fried and Wang. Investigations into other securities law violations and into other entities and persons relating to the alleged misconduct are ongoing.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed fraud charges against Caroline Ellison, Alameda CEO, and Gary Wang, Alameda and FTX Co-Founder, in an amended complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
He and Bankman-Fried met at a math camp in high school and became college roommates, Bankman-Fried wrote in a now-unavailable FTX blog. Wang worked as a software engineer at Google before co-founding FTX and Alameda, according to an archived webpage for the FTX Future Fund, the company's charitable effort.
The news continues to be pretty grim for the Philadelphia Flyers.