- Sam Bankman-Fried has been on a media apology tour following the collapse of his crypto firm.
- Convicted scammer Anna Sorokin (AKA Anna Delvey) thinks “he’s just trying to save himself.”
- “It’s a Ponzi scheme, what he did,” she told Insider.
Convicted scammer Anna Sorokin thinks Sam Bankman-Fried’s media apology tour is insincere garbage, she told Insider, believing he’s trying to lay the groundwork for a legal defense over his role in FTX’s meltdown and the evaporation of billions of dollars.
“He’s just trying to save himself,” she told Insider Thursday. “That would be his defense if he is going to get prosecuted: ‘I didn’t know Alameda was overleveraged’ — which is a crazy f—ing claim — that it’s the girlfriend’s fault. You can see the seeds of that already.”
Sorokin was herself convicted in 2019 of scamming banks and hotels out of around $200,000 — a saga that was later adapted into Netflix’s limited series “Inventing Anna.” Under the fake name “Anna Delvey,” she presented herself as a wealthy heiress and sought to obtain funds to build a project called the Anna Delvey Foundation.
Bankman-Fried, too, is battling accusations of fraud — on a much larger scale.
His crypto exchange firm FTX collapsed in November amid reports that it appeared to commingle funds with Alameda Research, a separate investing company he owned and which was run by Caroline Ellison, who he said was also a former romantic partner. Multiple federal agencies are reviewing his actions, which could lead to civil enforcement or criminal charges.
Bankman-Fried has since gone on a media apology tour, claiming he believes he could have avoided FTX’s problems had he only focused more on risk management and that he could have saved the exchange from collapse if he had more time to find investors. He has said he was giving…
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