FTX collapse, Tether operations have links to online-poker cheating scandals
It's incredible that SBF was being touted by Sequoia, WEF, Fortune, chumming it up with Clinton and Blair in the Bahamas, getting meetings and kid glove treatment with the SEC, relatively glowing profile as a "do-gooder" by the NYT.<p>All while FTX had a Chief Regulatory Officer who was basically a career white-collar criminal. It beggars belief that anyone who dug half an inch into this story wouldn't have seen 90,000 watt flashing red warning signs.<p>Crypto turned into a haven for replaying every form of financial fraud ever invented on an epic speedrun against retail "investors", and a whole lot of powerful people and institutions have dirty hands. The idea all of this could be adequately explained by stupidity rather than malice strains credulity.<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/business/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-crypto.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/business/sam-bankman-frie...</a>