EXCLUSIVE Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former FTX CEO facing prison time, wined and dined a top government regulator official at a swanky Washington, D.C., restaurant with his FTX colleagues while lobbying for friendly industry regulations, emails show.
EXCLUSIVE Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former FTX CEO charged with fraud and money laundering, told a then-top official for a key financial regulator that FTX was destined to be the "umpires of the crypto industry," emails show.
Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto exchange.
Dozens of pages of internal company emails and texts offer a detailed look at how FTX officials grew increasingly irritated with the 30-year-old founder as he tried to cling to power.