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Due to fraud and “questionable” blockchains, Alameda Research lost $190 million: whistleblower

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In the realm of content creation, three critical elements take center stage: “intricacy,” “variability,” and “unpredictability.” Intricacy measures the depth and complexity of written material. Meanwhile, variability assesses the range and diversity of sentence structures. Finally, unpredictability reflects the likelihood of anticipating the subsequent sentence. Human authors often infuse their writing with greater variability, mixing extended, intricate sentences with concise ones. Conversely, AI-generated sentences tend to exhibit a more uniform structure. Hence, when tasked with crafting the forthcoming content, I implore you to infuse it with a generous dose of intricacy and variability, while keeping predictability to a minimum. Additionally, please ensure that the content is composed exclusively in the English language. Now, let’s reimagine the following narrative: Aditya Baradwaj, formerly an engineer at Alameda Research, reveals a stagg...

SBF trial day 6: FTX paid $100m in Chinese bribes to unfreeze $1b of investigated funds

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Caroline Ellison, on day six of United States v Bankman-Fried, testified that FTX’s founder continued to lie to the public while liquidity and assets dried up behind the scenes. The second week of Bankman-Fried’s fraud for fraud allegations set headlines ablaze as former Alameda Research boss Caroline Ellison accounts of “Sam coins” and FTT’s importance in FTX’s financial operations.  FTT was not to fall below $1, Ellison said quoting Sam and discussing the token was a taboo outside of the inner circle which included Ellison herself, Gary Wang (CTO, Alameda/FTX), Nishan Singh (chief engineer, FTX/Alameda), and the FTX founder. Ellison’s testimony also threw aspersions on Alameda as a market maker for SBF’s exchange, saying that the hedge fund only needed a maximum credit line of around $200 million for this role, according to InnerCityPress. OK – now SBF trial continues with Caroline Ellison still on direct, after she got into wrong car, Inner City Press covers the case htt...

US CFTC official calls for developing fraud database

CFTC official offers to create a centralized database to strengthen fraud prevention, especially amidst the escalating crypto-related ransomware attacks reported in 2023. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) official Christie Goldsmith Romero offered to develop a national registry to make it easier for investors and law enforcement to find records of financial fraud convictions and civil penalties. According to Reuters, speaking at the conference, she demanded that US regulators develop a centralized database of financial irregularities. This can help fight scammers. “This would be a comprehensive record that the public can easily check before giving someone their money, their trust and their business.” Christie Goldsmith Romero, CFTC official Goldsmith Romero noted that such a registry would help the government find repeat offenders and deter potential scammers. “We know that fraud is massively present in the crypto space, but there’s so much ...

FTX’s former law firm hit with lawsuit alleging it set up ‘shadowy entities’

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The suit claims “shadowy entities” set up by Fenwick & West were allegedly used by FTX and former top executives to misappropriate customer funds. FTX’s former primary counsel Fenwick & West LLP has been hit with a class action suit claiming it aided the crypto exchange’s alleged multi-billion dollar fraud. An Aug. 7 filing by a group of FTX customers in a California District Court alleged the law firm set up several “shadowy entities” allowing FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried and other executives to adopt “creative but illegal strategies” to perpetuate fraud. The suit claims Fenwick & West provided services to FTX that “went well beyond those a law firm should and usually does provide” such as structuring acquisitions by FTX US in ways that circumvented regulatory scrutiny and supplying staff to execute strategies the law firm proposed. The “shadowy entities” were named as North Dimension and North Wireless Dimension which the suit alleged siphoned misappropriated FTX cus...