Former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has signaled he is unwilling to testify earlier than the US Congress till he’s “completed studying and reviewing what occurred.”
Bankman-Fried was responding to a Dec. 2 tweet from U.S. Consultant Maxine Waters inviting him to testify in a scheduled U.S. Home Committee on Monetary Companies listening to on Dec. 13 to debate “what occurred” at FTX.
In a Dec. 4 response on Twitter, the previous FTX CEO stated he feels it’s his “obligation to look earlier than the committee and clarify,” however solely as soon as he is “completed studying and reviewing what occurred,” including he wasn’t “certain” whether or not it will occur by the thirteenth.
Rep. Waters, and the Home Committee on Monetary Companies:
As soon as I’ve completed studying and reviewing what occurred, I’d really feel prefer it was my obligation to look earlier than the committee and clarify.
I am unsure that may occur by the thirteenth. However when it does, I’ll testify. https://t.co/c0P8yKlyQt
— SBF (@SBF_FTX) December 4, 2022
Some locally identified the response seems out of line along with his latest actions, together with collaborating in a number of media interviews and posting countless tweets about what led to the autumn of FTX in November.
Blockchain Affiliation Head of Coverage and U.S. Lawyer Jake Chervinsky steered to his 120,500 Twitter followers that Bankman-Fried was reluctant to participate within the Dec. 13 listening to as a result of ‘”mendacity to Congress below oath is much less interesting.”
Translation: he would not thoughts mendacity to Andrew Ross Sorkin or George Stephanopoulos, however mendacity to Congress below oath is much less interesting. https://t.co/DZTyzMwn9s
— Jake Chervinsky (@jchervinsky) December 4, 2022
On Nov. 30, Bankman-Fried made his first dwell public look for the reason that collapse of FTX in the course of the New York Instances’ DealBook Summit the place he was questioned over the circumstances behind the crypto change’s demise. A day later, he appeared in a Good Morning America interview, and likewise in a Twitter area hosted by IBC Group founder and CEO Mario Nawfal.
Most lately, Bankman-Fried was questioned by Coffeezilla in a Twitter Areas interview on Dec. 3, which noticed him leaving the interview round 20 minutes in.
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In the meantime, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has known as out Bankman-Fried’s purported narrative in latest days, stating on Dec. 3 that “even probably the most gullible particular person” shouldn’t consider Bankman-Fried’s declare that FTX’s switch of billions of {dollars} of buyer funds to its buying and selling agency Alameda Analysis got here from the results of an unintentional “accounting error.”
I do not care how messy your accounting is (or how wealthy you’re) – you are positively going to note for those who discover an additional $8B to spend.
Even probably the most gullible particular person shouldn’t consider Sam’s declare that this was an accounting error.
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) December 3, 2022
As for SBF’s latest media antics, Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk “agreed” with a member of the crypto neighborhood SBF doesn’t deserve any extra media consideration till his courtroom date, with Musk including he wants an “grownup timeout.”
Agreed. Let’s simply give him an grownup timeout within the massive home & transfer on.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022
