‘No Quantities’ Will Be Paid to SBF or His Interior Circle

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was proper about one factor: He and his interior circle received’t see any extra money from the corporate.

FTX spelled out in a court docket submitting over the weekend that neither Bankman-Fried nor the three just lately fired members of his interior circle (nor their members of the family) will see any compensation from the now-bankrupt firm.

The best way Bankman-Fried put it on November 10, the day earlier than FTX filed for chapter and he resigned as CEO, making customers complete comes first. “After that, buyers—previous and new—and workers who’ve fought for what’s proper of their profession, and who weren’t accountable for any of the fuck ups,” he wrote on Twitter.

On the time he was nonetheless CEO and had not but introduced that the corporate was submitting for chapter.

Since then, FTX has taken steps to distance itself from Bankman-Fried. Bahamian regulators denied and then confirmed that they ordered workers to maneuver a whole lot of hundreds of thousands price of funds in unauthorized transactions the identical day the corporate filed for Chapter 11 safety on November 11.  

Now, the corporate is making it crystal clear that, at the least on this, Bankman-Fried’s phrases will maintain true: “No quantities might be paid underneath the authority requested by this movement to any of the next individuals or any particular person identified by the debtors to have a familial relationship to any of Samuel Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh or Caroline Ellison,” right this moment’s submitting reads.

An FTX spokesperson confirmed that co-founder and chief know-how officer Gary Wang, engineering director Nishad Singh, and Alameda Analysis CEO Caroline Ellison have been terminated on Friday, November 18, in a Wall Road Journal report.

The very pointed exclusion of Bankman-Fried and his interior circle appeared in a movement from FTX to pay workers what they’re owed for work finished earlier than the corporate filed for chapter and to proceed paying compensation and advantages throughout the court docket continuing.

It’s customary in chapter circumstances for the debtors, on this case FTX, to request permission from the decide to proceed paying their workers. In any case, the corporate’s funds are imagined to be frozen. However the brand new FTX CEO John J. Ray III has famous that it’s been particularly tough to find all of FTX’s funds and workers.

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The court docket submitting additionally confirmed that even earlier than the chapter submitting had been submitted, the corporate had logged $20,000 price of billable hours with Owl Hill Advisory, the corporate by means of which it employed John J. Ray III as its new CEO.

Ray himself instructions $1,300 per hour, which the advisory agency will invoice FTX on a month-to-month foundation. The executives he’s employed from RLKS Government Answer to assist with funds and administration will obtain $975 per hour. 

FTX additionally stated within the submitting that it has suspended its follow of paying sure workers “with their proprietary cryptocurrency token and/or inventory choices or equity-based compensation.” FTX’s proprietary token is the FTX Token, or FTT.

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Bother first began for FTX and quantitative buying and selling desk Alameda Analysis, its sister firm, when a leaked steadiness sheet confirmed that Alameda’s $14 billion steadiness sheet included $5 billion price of FTT. That triggered Binance, a former FTX investor, to announce that it will be liquidating its $580 million FTT place. The ensuing financial institution run triggered FTT’s worth to crater as customers rushed to promote their tokens and pull funds off the FTX platform.

After Binance expressed its intent to amass rival crypto change FTX, Binance referred to as the deal off a day later. Then Bankman-Fried stated in a number of lengthy Twitter threads that he had misunderstood the corporate’s leverage and that he and his group could be working to search out liquidity, asserting at one level that there was a pending take care of Justin Solar’s TronDAO.

However shortly after that announcement, FTX filed its petition for Chapter 11 chapter safety on Friday, November 11.