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‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Says $15M Payout From FTX Was Wiped Out in Crypto Firm’s Collapse
New York Post ^ | December 8, 2022 | Devin Sean Martin

Posted on 12/08/2022 5:24:45 PM PST by nickcarraway

In an interview with CNBC on Thursday, O’Leary said he put about $9.7 million of his spokesman check into crypto tokens with his FTX account, which has dropped to zero after the exchange collapsed last month.

SNIP

O’Leary said he told the disgraced crypto tycoon, “Look Sam, I am just one investor, but my account has a zero in it, and there are no accounting records. Where did the money go? I need to find where the money went.”

O’Leary admitted that he fell into the “groupthink” pitfall, drinking the Kool-Aid on institutional investors’ frenzy to get in on crypto exchanges. “We all look like idiots. We relied on each other’s due diligence,” he said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; cryptocurrency; ftx; kevinoleary; sambankmanfried; sharktank
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1 posted on 12/08/2022 5:24:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Gee Kevin, and you’re always telling us how smart and wonderful you are.


2 posted on 12/08/2022 5:29:23 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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What a fool. If he had put it into gold he would be sitting pretty. But gold is not cool and modern.

3 posted on 12/08/2022 5:38:44 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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I am shocked that someone FINALLY stepped up and complained.

Where are OTHERS???


4 posted on 12/08/2022 5:38:57 PM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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Is he complaining?


5 posted on 12/08/2022 5:39:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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“We relied on each other’s due diligence,” he said.”

Diligence was due. But nobody did it.

How can he refer to “due diligence” when, in this instance, groupthink killed that notion?


6 posted on 12/08/2022 5:44:04 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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Well at least he is asking where his money went.

I was beginning to think there were no victims.


7 posted on 12/08/2022 5:45:09 PM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: nickcarraway

O’Leary looks bad here, as well he should.

But I’m actually more shocked seeing ‘Shark Tank” star Robert Herjavec doing ‘Car Shield’ commercials. Car Shield is scammy outfit that specifically targets (and takes advantage of) poor folks.

Herjavec has got to know that.


8 posted on 12/08/2022 5:45:52 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Undue dilligence?


9 posted on 12/08/2022 5:47:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I’m sure the extent of O’Leary’s due diligence was watching Tom Brady ask “You In?”

Sucker.


10 posted on 12/08/2022 5:49:20 PM PST by CapnJack ( )
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Isn’t O’Leary the one who often chastises others for being stupid?


11 posted on 12/08/2022 5:49:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: CapnJack

He didn’t realize for Tom Brady losing a lot of money is a positive. It gives him an excuse to keep playing football, which is all he really cares about.


12 posted on 12/08/2022 5:50:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
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A clown and his money are soon parted. Actually, this bald head stooge is worth 400 million, says the internet. So he’ll survive FTX.


13 posted on 12/08/2022 5:52:37 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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It sounds like he only lost the money he gave them. To be a spokesperson I get? What he lost is his reputation as a canny businessman.


14 posted on 12/08/2022 5:53:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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O’Leary said he told the disgraced crypto tycoon, “Look Sam, I am just one investor, but my account has a zero in it, and there are no accounting records. Where did the money go? I need to find where the money went.”

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FTX bankruptcy judge heard testimony that the company
was being “run as a personal fiefdom of Sam Bankman-Fried.”

<><>a “substantial amount” of FTX Group’s assets “have either been stolen or are missing.”
<><>unclear whether the “substantial amounts” were stolen or mishandled
<><>includes several billion in combined loans that GF-run Alameda Research reportedly made to SBF, two of his deputies, and a company majority-owned by him; or are separate from them.
<><>SBF also raised $420 million from investors on behalf of FTX —
<><>only he paid himself $300 million of that amount, claiming it as a personal reimbursement for re-purchasing the 15% stake in the exchange held by rival company Binance.

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The court has been told FTX has 36 banks and more than 200 bank accounts.....
....all that laundry........hmmmmmmm.


15 posted on 12/08/2022 5:54:41 PM PST by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God)
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He would have been better off investing in green energy and solar panels during the Obama years. Oh, wait...


16 posted on 12/08/2022 5:55:46 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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"Crypto is garbage!"

(....here's $15M to say nice things about MY crypto)

"But this token is different!"

(lol, money people...it's why the world has turned into sh*t)

17 posted on 12/08/2022 5:56:37 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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> Isn’t O’Leary the one who often chastises others for being stupid? <

Yes. He fashions himself to be the smartest and sharpest business mind, ever. And as a side note, he’s also the guy who was involved in a crash that killed two boaters. Wow, was that quickly hushed up. It probably cost O’Leary millions.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/kevin-oleary-boating-1.5264805


18 posted on 12/08/2022 6:02:29 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Sounds like his title should be Mr. Doofus.


19 posted on 12/08/2022 6:03:59 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: nickcarraway

Bwwwaaaahahahaha.....go buy some tulips.


20 posted on 12/08/2022 6:04:40 PM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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