{"id":146383,"date":"2022-11-22T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=146383"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:34:32","slug":"parents-of-ftx-alameda-crime-syndicate-ceos-finally-outed-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=146383","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Parents of FTX-Alameda Crime Syndicate CEOs finally outed&#8212;BIG TIME!!!<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s Parents Bought Bahamas &#8220;Vacation Home&#8221; Among $121 Million In FTX Property Purchases<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that it wasn&#8217;t just the &#8220;executives&#8221; running the show at FTX and Alameda who were enjoying the luxuries of owning mansion in the Bahamas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s parents were also among a group that &#8220;bought at least 19 properties worth nearly $121 million in the Bahamas over the past two years&#8221;,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/exclusive-bankman-frieds-ftx-parents-bought-bahamas-property-worth-121-mln-2022-11-22\/\">Reuters reported<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday morning, citing official property records.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the property purchases were &#8220;luxury beachfront homes, including seven condominiums in an expensive resort community called Albany, costing almost $72 million&#8221;, the report says. The properties were officially purchased by a unit of FTX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bahamas.png?itok=2_j8IXVk\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bahamas.png?itok=2_j8IXVk\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/bahamas.png?itok=2_j8IXVk\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"8d35244c-7681-4744-bb9d-1acd66c9444b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deeds of the properties showed that they would be used for\u00a0&#8220;residence for key personnel&#8221; of FTX, Reuters wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-15\"><em>Other high-end real estate purchases include three condominiums at One Cable Beach, a beachfront residence in New Providence. Records showed the condominiums cost between $950,000 and $2 million and were bought by Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering at FTX, Gary Wang, an FTX co-founder, and Bankman-Fried for residential use.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stanford University law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried were listed as signatories on a home in Old Fort Bay that was said to be used as a &#8220;vacation home&#8221;. Reuters was able to contact a spokesperson for the professors, who said they had &#8220;been trying to return the property to FTX&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sure, now that the company has blown up&#8230;easy decision.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we said on Twitter this morning, it&#8217;s great work if you can get it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1595034689688915969&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fsam-bankman-frieds-parents-bought-bahamas-vacation-home-among-121-million-ftx-property&amp;sessionId=095f3b7de246d4d5f355d8bf61e87d3cedeceb8b&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=a3525f077c700%3A1667415560940&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1595034689688915969\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The spokesperson told\u00a0<em>Reuters:\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;Since before the bankruptcy proceedings, Mr. Bankman and Ms. Fried have been seeking to return the deed to the company and are awaiting further instructions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters unearthed the new details by searching records at the\u00a0Bahamas Registrar General&#8217;s Department &#8220;for FTX, Bankman-Fried, his parents and some of the company&#8217;s key executives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A unit of FTX called &#8220;FTX Property Holdings Ltd&#8221; bought about 15 properties worth $100 million in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>FTX&#8217;s headquarters is now abandoned, the report says. The $4.5 million plot of land is empty.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/sam-bankman-frieds-parents-bought-bahamas-vacation-home-among-121-million-ftx-property\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/sam-bankman-frieds-parents-bought-bahamas-vacation-home-among-121-million-ftx-property<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s Parents Bought Bahamas &#8220;Vacation Home&#8221; Among $121 Million In FTX Property Purchases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}