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$1B, government bribes and Thai prostitutes

Edition #82 - 13 OCT 2023


Caroline Ellison testified that Thai prostitutes and a $100m bribe to the Chinese officials were involved in an attempt to regain access to $1B of Alameda's funds frozen by the Chinese government. She also accused SBF of trying to scam Saudi investors in FTX's final days. Ellison's to-do list included "getting regulators to crack down on Binance" as revealed by the prosecutors.




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