Unraveling FTX: Legal Complexities and Controversies

From “hush money” allegations to a prospective FTX relaunch, it’s been a crazy week for those following the legal saga of Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed crypto empire. Perhaps few are following it more closely than 507 Capital founder Thomas Braziel, who specializes in the trading of bankruptcy claims. He explains the significance of a spate of recent headlines and shares newsworthy tidbits from his meeting with new FTX honcho John J. Ray III.

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Show highlights:

• what the Daniel Friedberg lawsuit revealed about the whistleblowers of FTX
• how FTX used allegedly false claims in its Series C funding round
• whether Friedberg’s former law firm, Fenwick & West, will suffer legal consequences
• how John Ray is prosecuting the allegedly fraudulent transactions made by FTX
• what stood out to Thomas in his personal dealings with John Ray
• what the timeline is for filing a reorganization plan for FTX
• what the odds are of an FTX 2.0 relaunch, according to Thomas
• why Thomas says that FTT won’t play a role in the potential FTX recovery 
• whether the decision to redact the identities of FTX customers was right

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Guest

• Thomas Braziel, Founder of 507 Capital
• Previous appearances on Unchained
• Will FTX Customers Ever Recover Their Assets? Two Insolvency Experts Weigh In
• Will Celsius Survive the Bankruptcy Process?
• How Crypto Bankruptcy Claims Buyers Will Profit From the Collapse of FTX

Links

• Previous coverage of Unchained on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX:
• The Chopping Block: Was FTX a Scam From the Very Beginning? 
• How Much Prison Time Is FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Facing? 
• Why the Legal Process for FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried Could Take Years
• The Chopping Block: SBF Wants to Win in the Court of Public Opinion. Will He?
• Jesse Powell and Kevin Zhou on How FTX and Alameda Lost $10 Billion
• Is the Collapse of Crypto Lending Over, or Is It Just Starting?
• Did the Bahamian Government Direct SBF and Gary Wang to Hack FTX?
• The Chopping Block: Why Lenders Didn’t Liquidate Alameda When It Was Underwater 
• Erik Voorhees and Cobie on Why FTX Loaned Out Customers’ Assets
• The Chopping Block: FTX: The Biggest Collapse in the History of Crypto?
• Sam Bankman-Fried on How to Prevent the Next Terra and 3AC
• CoinDesk: FTX Customers Have Until End-September to Submit Bankruptcy Claims
• Unchained:
• FTX Sues Former Compliance Chief Who Allegedly Silenced Whistleblowers
• FTX Stops Sale of $500 Million Stake in AI Firm Anthropic: Report
• FTX Recovers $7 Billion in Assets in Liquid Assets
• WSJ: FTX Begins Talks on Reboot Amid Regulatory Crackdown on Crypto Exchanges 
• Bloomberg: Bankman-Fried's FTX Halts Sale of $500 Million AI Startup Anthropic Stake

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