Weekly Roundup 12/16/22 (SBF Arrest, Binance’s ‘Bank run’, Gensler, FTX, and IEX) (EP.381)

Matt and Nic are back for another wild week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Is SBF currently interned in a top 5 prison on earth?
• SBF is finally arrested
• We enumerate the charges from the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ
• What kind of sentence could Sam be looking at here?
• The CFTC’s interesting argument for standing over FTX
• SBF is charged is campaign finance violations Confirming that Alameda did have latency and other advantages trading on FTX
• SBF’s parents face growing scrutiny
• What’s the deal with Gensler’s calendar?
• Gensler comes under more scrunity for his FTX/IEX meetings
• Mr. John Ray is a new star of CT
• We have a new possible category for bad boys
• McCaffrey resigns from The Block after revealing loans from SBF
• Elizabeth Warren proposed a hostile anti-crypto bill
• Do Kwon is reportedly in Serbia
• The DOJ is reportedly split over charging Binance
• What’s the deal with the Binance ‘bank run’?

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