United States v. BANKMAN-FRIED (FTX collapse/fraud)

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Only way we would know is to be on the inside of the banking system, or if Project Veritas gets someone to 'Be Brave Do Something', or the like.

Conveniently though, some crypto's like Bitcoin might offer a way to track this illegal money laundering, alleged of course. Much easier than if they were using the old FRN's or some crappy artwork and book deals.
 
There has not been one single credible report that Ukraine invested any money in FTX. Ukraine "partnered" with FTX to build a portal that allowed the Ukraine central bank to receive crypto donations.
If, as reported, SBF had a back door to get money out of FTX why wouldn’t it be unthinkable that there were not other back doors for other nefarious purposes?
 
There has been over $60 Billion dollars from the US sent to Ukraine for "Aid".

Feel free to give us a full accounting as to how NONE of that ended up in politicians pockets. We already "knew" that was happening we just didn't have a plausible path. You'd be a fool to not see the Huge potential money laundering here.
 
There has not been one single credible report that Ukraine invested any money in FTX. Ukraine "partnered" with FTX to build a portal that allowed the Ukraine central bank to receive crypto donations.
everybody knows what (they) say on CNN/NYT. that's why we dont post their claims. instead, we look beyond the cover story - in an attempt to get to the real story, if it exists

i think this mindset has caused a bit of conflict that needn't be. we know the official story -- we are out to disprove it. if their official story stands up, it has earned it

sometimes we demolish their claims, other times we dont. i hope this helps you understand where we are coming from. gathering evidence/theories is part of the process of sussing out the truth/educated guess. without that process one is left misinformed and often dumbfounded when their 'truth' makes them look like a fool
 
We already "knew" that was happening
they already got caught. guessing that they're still doing it is prudent while tens of billions of our money is disappearing into a black hole

insert any of many (media) stories here -- those that flat-out admit that 'nobody' knows where all of those billions have gone

but we do have an inkling where some of it has gone
 
they already got caught. guessing that they're still doing it is prudent while tens of billions of our money is disappearing into a black hole

insert any of many (media) stories here -- those that flat-out admit that 'nobody' knows where all of those billions have gone

but we do have an inkling where some of it has gone

Which one got caught? Might have missed that story. Besides the untold numbers of Arms that just get lost and resold or whatever.
 
wtf?



Crypto company's collapse strands scientists​


Foundations supported by FTX committed hundreds of millions of dollars to research on climate, biodefense, and AI ethics​

 
seeing some claims online that ftx funded an ivermectin study that said it didnt work

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i clipped a few things out of a long article that is really good

note the money movement re ukraine


In 2020, SBF gave $5.2 million to President Joe Biden’s campaign, but his political spending was then only just getting started. SBF created the main vehicle for his political spending in 2022: Protect Our Future PAC. That PAC raised $28.4 million and spent all most all of it on Democratic primaries and the general election.

According to reporting from Coin Desk, the Ukrainian government partnered with FTX to help convert cryptocurrency “donations” into arms and war supplies. According to some estimates, between FTX and the National Bank of Ukraine facilitated the flow of up to $100 million worth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency for the war effort. Ukrainian officials have refuted the allegation that anything nefarious happened with FTX, but that’s pretty much meaningless. As far as I’m concerned, it’s only smoke around the potential fire.

......he gave much more money to Democrats after the partnership with Ukraine than he did before. In 2021 and in the first part of 2022 (prior to the partnership with Ukraine in March of 2022), SBF had given $11.7 million to political candidates, according to FEC records. After March 15, 2022, the date when Coindesk first reported the partnership with Ukraine, SBF gives another $22.4 million to politicians and political committees. In May, two months after the start of FTX’s Ukrainian partnership, SBF tells a podcaster that his “soft ceiling” for political spending on left-wing causes is $1,000,000,000. Regardless of what you think about the conspiracy theory, it’s clear that SBF donated far more money after the Ukrainian partnership and floated the idea of donating enormous sums – after the Ukrainian partnership.
 
i clipped a few things out of a long article that is really good

note the money movement re ukraine


In 2020, SBF gave $5.2 million to President Joe Biden’s campaign, but his political spending was then only just getting started. SBF created the main vehicle for his political spending in 2022: Protect Our Future PAC. That PAC raised $28.4 million and spent all most all of it on Democratic primaries and the general election.

According to reporting from Coin Desk, the Ukrainian government partnered with FTX to help convert cryptocurrency “donations” into arms and war supplies. According to some estimates, between FTX and the National Bank of Ukraine facilitated the flow of up to $100 million worth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency for the war effort. Ukrainian officials have refuted the allegation that anything nefarious happened with FTX, but that’s pretty much meaningless. As far as I’m concerned, it’s only smoke around the potential fire.

......he gave much more money to Democrats after the partnership with Ukraine than he did before. In 2021 and in the first part of 2022 (prior to the partnership with Ukraine in March of 2022), SBF had given $11.7 million to political candidates, according to FEC records. After March 15, 2022, the date when Coindesk first reported the partnership with Ukraine, SBF gives another $22.4 million to politicians and political committees. In May, two months after the start of FTX’s Ukrainian partnership, SBF tells a podcaster that his “soft ceiling” for political spending on left-wing causes is $1,000,000,000. Regardless of what you think about the conspiracy theory, it’s clear that SBF donated far more money after the Ukrainian partnership and floated the idea of donating enormous sums – after the Ukrainian partnership.

The biggest Red Flag / question that I have is where did all the SEED money for FTX come from. It was just founded like 3 years ago and suddenly it's a $10 Billion ponzi scheme? They still had to have massive up front funding and tech departments, etc. Follow that money and you'll find some real answers.
 
The biggest Red Flag / question that I have is where did all the SEED money for FTX come from. It was just founded like 3 years ago and suddenly it's a $10 Billion ponzi scheme? They still had to have massive up front funding and tech departments, etc. Follow that money and you'll find some real answers.
Supposedly he made $100,000 per day on arbitrage buying Bitcoin for $10,000 and selling it in Japan for $11,000.
 
Supposedly he made $100,000 per day on arbitrage buying Bitcoin for $10,000 and selling it in Japan for $11,000.
Arbitrage is a short term play not a business model. If SBF was making such profits with little barrier to entry then SBF would be facing dozens of competitors doing the same thing Eventually there would be no profit.

As @Voodoo inquired, why did so much money flow into a relative newcomer exchange, with no track record, so soon?

What will be interesting is who will be listed as creditors in the bankruptcy filings. What will be more telling is whose names will not be listed in those documents because they would rather take a full loss than be outed.
 

BOMBSHELL REPORT: FTX Balance Sheet Contained Investment Called “TRUMPLOSE”​

By Anthony Scott
Published November 15, 2022

FTX’s collapse is one of the biggest financial scandals in the 21st century.

As reported by the Gateway Pundit earlier, “tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency.”

Now the Financial Times has been able to obtain a balance sheet of FTX and its contents are absolutely dark.

The balance sheet revealed FTX had only “$900mn of assets it could easily sell, despite having $9bn of liabilities.”

One of the most shocking revelations is that the balance sheet listed a $7 million dollar asset called “TRUMPLOSE”.

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"Proof" as requested...

Dirty Mitch Was on the Take… McConnell Received $2.5 Million from Crypto Laundromat FTX for His Senate Leadership Fund​

By Jim Hoft
Published November 15, 2022

The CEO of now-bankrupt FTX admitted that FTX was nothing more than a laundromat for the Ukrainian government.

TGP reported earlier that the now-bankrupt FTX was transferring money to Ukraine and then laundering money back from Ukraine to the Democrat party.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried donated $38 million to Democrats this year.

Mitch McConnell took funding from FTX for his Senate Leadership Fund.

FTX donated $2.5 million to the Republican Senate Leadership Fund.

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It’s listed on Open Secrets.

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Mitch McConnell was paid handsomely for his lack of leadership.





Liberty Daily reported:

Wouldn’t you know Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would have his hands in the massive cookie jar in Ukraine and the FTX debacle. Of course he is. It seems more and more that the only person who wasn’t on the take was Donald Trump, which may be why they worked so hard to get rid of him.​
Documents show McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund received $2,500,000 from someone at FTX, the crypto company that fell in disgrace last week.​
The money goes from taxpayers, is sent as “aid” to Ukraine, which gives a good chunk of the laundered money to FTX, which contributes to the Uniparty Swamp. This prompts the Uniparty Swamp to repeat the process, and as we’ve seen over the past several months, it’s working wonders. Corporate media barely reports on all the money getting laundered there on a weekly basis. No Democrats and very few Republican politicians bring up the issue. Nearly everyone is on the take.​

Hat Tip Andrew

 
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"Proof" as requested...
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TGP reported earlier that the now-bankrupt FTX was transferring money to Ukraine and then laundering money back from Ukraine to the Democrat party. ...
Proof? Lol. Bonus points to anyone who can find it in TGP's report. Hint: it doesn't exist. Just another example of conflating the crypto donation to Ukraine central bank platform as magically meaning Ukraine sent money to FTX. TGP is either stupid (honest mistake) or deceitful (propagandist).
 
The biggest Red Flag / question that I have is where did all the SEED money for FTX come from. It was just founded like 3 years ago and suddenly it's a $10 Billion ponzi scheme? They still had to have massive up front funding and tech departments, etc. Follow that money and you'll find some real answers.
i posted a list earlier in this thread. it was mostly friends of the communists at frbny -- hedge funds, private equity, etc -- including some of the biggest in the business

i'm still leaning controlled demolition -- it jives with my theory about why crypto ever came to be --- the social credit digital money
 

BOMBSHELL REPORT: FTX Balance Sheet Contained Investment Called “TRUMPLOSE”​

By Anthony Scott
Published November 15, 2022

FTX’s collapse is one of the biggest financial scandals in the 21st century.

As reported by the Gateway Pundit earlier, “tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency.”

Now the Financial Times has been able to obtain a balance sheet of FTX and its contents are absolutely dark.

The balance sheet revealed FTX had only “$900mn of assets it could easily sell, despite having $9bn of liabilities.”

One of the most shocking revelations is that the balance sheet listed a $7 million dollar asset called “TRUMPLOSE”.

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there's a picture of the balance sheet at the link i posted earlier here

 
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Proof? Lol. Bonus points to anyone who can find it in TGP's report. Hint: it doesn't exist. Just another example of conflating the crypto donation to Ukraine central bank platform as magically meaning Ukraine sent money to FTX. TGP is either stupid (honest mistake) or deceitful (propagandist).

It's a race. How about you Prove where our $60 Billion has disappeared. That should be much easier than trying to prove money laundering.
 
Saw this on another site. I always thought naturalnews was out there. DYODD.
BRAVO ! First "NATURAL" site I've seen not ran by flowering, leftists socialists/ Greenies.
 
BRAVO ! First "NATURAL" site I've seen not ran by flowering, leftists socialists/ Greenies.
of course they stole money and sent it to (communists) and (communist agendas) like globalist warming, covid/vax fraud, etc

never forget money is FUNGIBLE -- so there's no defense of 'that money' or 'this money'. too, (bankman) commingled all of that sh-t -- customer money, ukraine welfare/kickbacks, hedge fund money, etc, etc
 
see that gemini and genesis have both halted withdrawals. controlled demolition dominoes continue to fall
 
of course they stole money and sent it to (communists) and (communist agendas) like globalist warming, covid/vax fraud, etc

never forget money is FUNGIBLE -- so there's no defense of 'that money' or 'this money'. too, (bankman) commingled all of that sh-t -- customer money, ukraine welfare/kickbacks, hedge fund money, etc, etc
You call it "communists" I call them Fabian Socialists / NAZIs / Neo-NAZIs. There is a difference.
 
so, we're all smarter for this information but we're never gonna have justice from the type of criminal intellect we have today

it's like chasing our own tail and we're stressing out from all this destruction with zero ability to stop any of it


how many criminal conspiracies are we at now? and the only resolution we have is Harvey Weinstein is now known as a rapist of the wife of Governor Greasy

we didn't even get the pleasure of watching that bastard Cosby die in jail...nor hillary hang or ...
 
so, we're all smarter for this information but we're never gonna have justice from the type of criminal intellect we have today

it's like chasing our own tail and we're stressing out from all this destruction with zero ability to stop any of it


how many criminal conspiracies are we at now? and the only resolution we have is Harvey Weinstein is now known as a rapist of the wife of Governor Greasy

we didn't even get the pleasure of watching that bastard Cosby die in jail...nor hillary hang or ...
IDK, More and more people around the world are fed up with the elite and .gov. that control them, even WuFlu Chinamens.
Maybe attempted gold confiscation could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Justa WAG
 
i posted a list earlier in this thread. it was mostly friends of the communists at frbny -- hedge funds, private equity, etc -- including some of the biggest in the business

i'm still leaning controlled demolition -- it jives with my theory about why crypto ever came to be --- the social credit digital money

Yeah, certainly agreed. Now, was Bitcoin itself a setup by the Clowns? Or did they just jump on it after they realized the potential of Bitcoins?
 
Authorities in the United States and the Bahamas are discussing the possibility of bringing Sam Bankman-Fried to the US for questioning as new legal proceedings against FTX and its former CEO were also launched on Wednesday.

Citing multiple sources involved in the discussions, a Bloomberg report stated that “conversations between law-enforcement officials in the two countries have intensified in recent days,” and that Bankman-Fried has been “cooperating” with Bahamian authorities, who interviewed him on Saturday.

The report said no one involved in the collapse of FTX and Alameda has been arrested or taken into custody yet, and the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and the Royal Bahamas Police’s financial crimes unit all declined to comment as of Wednesday morning.

In addition to the former CEO, FTX co-founder Gary Wang and director of engineering Nishad Singh are still in the Bahamas and remain “under supervision” by local authorities. ...

 
Yeah, certainly agreed. Now, was Bitcoin itself a setup by the Clowns? Or did they just jump on it after they realized the potential of Bitcoins?
From what the talking heads are saying on the Bus. Shows: All the exchanges may be in jeopardy. Base Coin seem to be the one that has the least to fear. All are saying the only safe crypto will be those who mined BitCoin themselves, and keep them off line on USB stick. ( all are above my head. so I don't know what the hell I'm talking about)gb
 
From what the talking heads are saying on the Bus. Shows: All the exchanges may be in jeopardy. Base Coin seem to be the one that has the least to fear. All are saying the only safe crypto will be those who mined BitCoin themselves, and keep them off line on USB stick. ( all are above my head. so I don't know what the hell I'm talking about)gb

The knowledgeable have always said the same about crypto as we say about PM's. Not your keys, not your crypto. Or if you don't hold it you don't own it.
 
... All are saying the only safe crypto will be those who mined BitCoin themselves, and keep them off line on USB stick. ( all are above my head. so I don't know what the hell I'm talking about)gb
When you buy crypto on an exchange like Coinbase, your coins are deposited into a hosted wallet created by the exchange for you. You can keep your coins in that wallet on the exchange, or you can transfer the coin to your own wallet off exchange. When you move crypto off exchange into your own (cold) storage, you have total ownership/control of your coin (you aren't at risk of the exchange blowing up or otherwise stealing your coins).
 
Yeah, certainly agreed. Now, was Bitcoin itself a setup by the Clowns? Or did they just jump on it after they realized the potential of Bitcoins?
indeed. it's the age old question - coincidence or conspiracy

my favorite technique to discern which-is-which is to analyze the end result. if it benefits (them) and (theirs) conspiracy is the best bet
 
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