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FTX sues SBF's parents, alleges they funneled millions to Stanford, other 'pet causes'
SF Gate ^ | 9/19/2023 | By Alex Shultz

Posted on 09/19/2023 1:04:10 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

Longtime Stanford University professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried — the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried — were sued by the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company FTX on Monday. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Delaware, the couple is accused of using FTX funds to enrich themselves and give to their “pet causes,” including millions of dollars in donations to Stanford.

The lawsuit alleges that both Bankman and Fried “fraudulently transferred and misappropriated” tens of millions of dollars in total from FTX. They were also given a 30,000-square-foot $16.4 million home in the Bahamas and a $10 million cash gift by their son Bankman-Fried, according to the lawsuit.

Bankman, described on his Stanford Law School faculty page as a “leading scholar in the field of tax law,” took a leave of absence from the university in December 2021 and formally became a senior adviser at FTX, according to the lawsuit.

He is alleged to have personally directed $5.5 million in donations to Stanford, “donations that did not benefit the FTX Group, and instead amounted to naked self-dealing by Bankman, who sought to curry favor with and enrich his employer at the FTX Group’s expense,” the lawsuit reads. “In advancing Stanford University as a recipient of FTX Group charitable donations, Bankman also conceived of various creative means by which to remit payments to Stanford University through different FTX Group entities.”

Bankman was aware of how the donations might be perceived, according to the lawsuit: “It seems too close to home for me,” he’s quoted as saying.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barbarafried; bidendonors; censorship; cryptocurrency; fraud; ftx; ftxgroup; josephbankman; parents; sambankmanfried; sbf; sethrich; stanford; stanfordu; stanforduniversity
The kicker. One of SBF's parents taught legal ethics for a living. LOL.
1 posted on 09/19/2023 1:04:10 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

Another article described the parents as “deeply ethical people”. They would not get married because it was unfair to gay people, who were not allowed to marry. Bwahahahaha!

How much FTX money was received by the democrat party?

These people were always parasites; never distinguished, IMHO.


2 posted on 09/19/2023 1:13:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( What did Obama know, and when did he know it? Did Obama know Biden was taking bribes?)
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To: NohSpinZone
Oh, c'mon. Is this the face of a mother who would do that?


3 posted on 09/19/2023 1:18:00 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

That’s Lyle Lovett!


4 posted on 09/19/2023 1:23:25 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Except her facial expression says she is Lyle NotLovinett


5 posted on 09/19/2023 1:28:41 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: NohSpinZone

“”taught legal ethics for a living””

No big surprise here. Andrew Weissman, the Left’s favorite prosecutor spent decades violating rights, cheating, threatening families, and hiding exculpatory evidence over and over. His final attack against America was with the Mueller ‘investigation.’

Weissman is now ‘teaching’ in a law school.


6 posted on 09/19/2023 1:29:42 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Kinda sounds like the Biden family.


7 posted on 09/19/2023 1:38:01 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Talk about a hatchet face!


8 posted on 09/19/2023 2:11:43 PM PDT by Freedumb
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

You can be sure Weissman is in constant contact with Jack Smith and all the other Inquisitors trying to torture President Trump.

Mueller’s hoax was by no means his last rodeo.


9 posted on 09/19/2023 2:22:25 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Nah, that’s Keith Richards, circa 1970.


10 posted on 09/19/2023 2:30:32 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: NohSpinZone

And they did. These two scum commies were majority in on the feud and illegal funding schemes. Throw these two dirtbags in jail for life.


11 posted on 09/19/2023 4:16:23 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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Who takes the mothers last name and father’s as a middle?


12 posted on 09/19/2023 4:19:07 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: NohSpinZone

imo, the kid didn’t have the brains or experience to put this scheme together.

sorry that his own parents had to make him the scape goat.

brandon will prolly give SBF the medal of freedom for his role in the scheme?


13 posted on 09/19/2023 4:59:42 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: antidemoncrat

My favorite slur of all time: Secretary Bootyjuice!


14 posted on 09/20/2023 11:11:52 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( What did Obama know, and when did he know it? Did Obama know Biden was taking bribes?)
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