SBF shifts blame to Alameda, claims ‘I didn’t knowingly commingle funds’

Speaking unrecorded astatine the New York Times Dealbook event, Sam Bankman-Fried declared that helium did not “knowingly commingle funds.”

“I was amazed conscionable however large Alameda’s presumption was… I wasn’t trying to commingle funds.”

When asked however helium tin judge the quality betwixt his anterior connection connected Twitter that the contented with FTX came down to an “accounting mistake,” SBF blamed mediocre interior dashboards for mediocre absorption of funds.

SBF continued to notation the nonaccomplishment of different crypto borrow-lending desks successful 2022. According to SBF, Alameda had borderline positions unfastened with these desks and moved them to FTX aft they unopen down.

“I deliberation determination is simply a important discrepancy betwixt the existent positions and the dashboards that were utilized to show the quality of Alameda’s positions.”

Concerning Alameda, SBF declared, “I didn’t cognize precisely what was going on,” arsenic helium seemingly distanced himself from the firm. While SBF repeatedly stated that helium made “pretty large oversights” successful managing funds betwixt FTX and Alameda, helium leaned heavy connected the mistakes successful Alameda’s tribunal alternatively than FTX’s.

SBF did admit that helium was “embarrassed” astir his inability to expect the standard of the “market crash.”

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