>>18132491

HYPERLINK TO ARTICLE IN NYT ON SBF AND FTX

Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX pals ran ‘massive, multi-year’ crypto fraud: SEC

https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-pals-ran-massive-multi-year-fraud-sec/

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A damning civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week against Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang includes elaborate details of disgraced crypto bro Sam Bankman-Fried’s “massive, years-long fraud” that allegedly saw him diverting customer funds to maintain his hedge fund.

In the complaint dated Dec. 21, the SEC claimed Ellison and Wang– both of whom pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges related to the ongoing scandal this week – knew Bankman-Fried was misleading customers about FTX’s risk profile.

In addition to using customer funds to “make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations,” Bankman-Fried also owned 90% of Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund where Ellison, his former girlfriend, served as co-CEO from 2021 through last month.

Wang, who co-founded FTX in 2019 with Bankman-Fried and Nishad Singh, owned the other 10 percent of the company.

According to Bloomberg, testimony from Wang, who was FTX’s Chief Technology Officer, could be particularly damaging to Bankman-Fried’s claims he was tricked into running the scheme by his associates.

“I expect it will be more difficult for him to claim he had no knowledge of what Wang was up to,” Sarah Paul, a former federal prosecutor in New York, told the outlet.

Per the SEC’s complaint, Bankman-Fried gave Alameda special privileges on the FTX platform, including a “virtually unlimited ‘line of credit’” funded by the latter’s customers.

Thus, when Alameda was unable to meet loan obligations following a downturn in crypto asset prices in May 2022, Bankman-Fried allegedly directed Ellison to divert FTX customer assets to pay off the hedge fund’s debts.

Meanwhile, both Bankman-Fried and Ellison publicly denied Alameda received special treatment from FTX. “‘We’re at arm’s length and don’t get any different treatment from other market makers,’” Ellison is quoted telling Bloomberg in Sept. 2022.

Bankman-Fried’s “house of cards” also entailed securities fraud regarding FTT, the exchange token issued by FTX in 2019.

Despite Bankman-Fried’s assurances to investors the exchange was not exposed to the tokens, he allowed Ellison to manipulate FTT’s prices, thereby inflating the value of Alameda’s collateral in order to secure billions of dollars from third-party lenders.

Bankman-Fried, Ellison, and Wang were all aware that FTX investors became more vulnerable to crypto markets as Alameda increased its borrowing backed by FTT collateral.

Throughout 2020, 2021, and into 2022, Bankman-Fried also reportedly commingled funds from Alameda to make political donations and purchase “tens of millions of dollars” in Bahamian real estate.

The fraud allegedly continued through the final days before FTX and Alameda filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov. 11.

“Even…faced with billions of dollars in customer withdrawal demands that FTX could not fulfill, Bankman-Fried and Ellison, with Wang’s knowledge, misled investors from whom they needed money to plug a multi-billion-dollar hole,” the complaint reads.

The system finally caved in on Nov. 9, after crypto exchange Binance backed out of a bid to acquire FTX and customers withdrew $5 billion from the platform. Bankman-Fried briefly sought emergency funding to cover FTX’s $8 billion shortfall before resigning from his position the following day.

The blistering content of the SEC filing is merely the latest twist in the FTX saga. After his arrest in the Bahamas earlier this month, Bankman-Fried was extradited to the U.S. this week and was subsequently released on a record-breaking $250 million bond.

The MIT grad is currently holed up at his parents’ Palo Alto home and is due back in court in January. If convicted on all charges, he faces over 115 years behind bars.

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>>18132670

Around the same time, biden went on holidays to the bahamas, which is close to the virgin islands, and if anon remembers the A.G who tried to investigate the J.P Morgan ties to Epstein got fired!!

>Throughout 2020, 2021, and into 2022, Bankman-Fried also reportedly commingled funds from Alameda to make political donations and purchase “tens of millions of dollars” in Bahamian real estate.

Biden vacations in Virgin Islands as Americans face problems at home

Issues include the border crisis, inflation and a deadly winter storm

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vacations-virgin-islands-americans-face-problems-home

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US Virgin Islands district attorney fired days after suing JP Morgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein ties

Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan said he had ‘relieved’ Denise George of her duties amid reports he was unaware of a lawsuit filed against JP Morgan Chase

Bevan Hurley

Monday 02 January 2023 18:51

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeffrey-epstein-jp-morgan-us-virgin-islands-lawsuit-b2253153.html

The US Virgin Islands’ top prosecutor has lost her job days after filing a lawsuit accusing financial giant JP Morgan Chase of turning a “blind eye” to Jeffrey Epstein’s multi-decade sex trafficking operation.

Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit in Manhattan last week alleging that the Wall St giant “provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims” of Epstein’s offending were paid in the court filing, according to Bloomberg.

On New Year’s Eve, Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan confirmed to several news outlets on the island that Ms George had been removed from her role amid reports he had been blindsided by the lawsuit.

“I relieved Denise George of her duties as attorney general this weekend,” Mr Bryan said in a statement to The Independent on Monday.

“I thank her for her service to the people of the territory during the past four years as attorney general and wish her the best in her future endeavours.”

>>18132696

got to be brain dead to think it was suicide, he was living the high life and had ties to all the major habbenings - he was Killaryied

>>18132748

HIS ALTERNATIVE TWITTER WAS ACTIVE AS OF THE 10JAN 2023

Note: He was on the story of the biden documents stash at the chinese funded think tank.

>@NYTBlake

https://twitter.com/NYTBlake

>>18132832

May be nothing but anon sees

1) Castle Red

2) Eyes out for Ghosts = aka spooks

just saying

>>18132920

==we have the scene of the crime - taft bridge=

not much chance of surviving that fall.

wonder what the autopsy will reveal if there is one ?

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>Taft Bridge

The Taft Bridge (also known as the Connecticut Avenue Bridge or William Howard Taft Bridge) is a historic bridge located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It carries Connecticut Avenue over the Rock Creek gorge, including Rock Creek and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, connecting the neighborhoods of Woodley Park and Kalorama. It is named after former United States president and Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and sits to the southwest of the Duke Ellington Bridge.[2][3]

Four statues of lions by sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, known as the Perry Lions, are placed in pairs at both ends of the bridge. On July 3, 2003, the Taft Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Bridge

History

The Classical Revival bridge was built from 1897 to 1907. It was designed by engineer George S. Morison and architect Edward Pearce Casey.[2][3] It is an arch bridge with unreinforced concrete arches and a reinforced concrete deck. The total length of the bridge is 274.5 meters (901 ft). It has been called an "engineering tour de force" and the largest unreinforced concrete structure in the world.[4] In 1931, the bridge was renamed in honor of U.S. President William Howard Taft, who frequently walked the bridge while Chief Justice of the United States.[5]

During early planning for the Washington Metro in the 1960s, the Red Line was slated to run across the bridge to connect Dupont Circle and Woodley Park. Instead, the metro was built underground.[6]

Perry Lions

The bridge is "guarded" by four large male lions, two on each end of the bridge (each about 7 ft. x 6 ft. 6 in. x 13 ft.). Two of the lions rest on all fours with their heads tilted upwards and mouths slightly open while the other pair lie with their eyes closed, apparently sleeping. They were originally designed and sculpted by Roland Hinton Perry in 1906 out of cast concrete (the bridge as a whole is one of the first cast concrete bridges in the country) and were installed in 1907.

In 1964 the lions were restored and weatherproofed by Washington-based sculptor Renato Luccetti, although this restoration proved to be less than entirely successful. When a major rehabilitation of the bridge began in 1993, the lions, which were in very bad condition, were removed for further restoration. They are currently stored in the Air Rights Tunnel on southbound I-395. The sculptures were finally found to be beyond restoring.[7][8]

The United States Commission of Fine Arts worked with the city in the late 1990s to oversee the production of the replacement lions that now sit on the bridge. The sculptor Reinaldo Lopez-Carrizo of Professional Restoration produced molds based on the existing sculptures and photographs, and used them to cast new concrete lion sculptures that were installed on the bridge in July and August 2000.[9] The same molds were used to cast bronze lions installed at the main pedestrian entrance to the National Zoo farther north on Connecticut Avenue in 2002.[10] The white lion in the lobby of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is a quarter-size replica from that effort.[11]

Bairstow Eagle Lampposts

Twenty-four lampposts are equally spaced along both sides of the Taft Bridge. Created by sculptor Ernest Bairstow in 1906, the lampposts are composed of concrete bases (about 5 feet high, 8 inches deep and four feet wide) with painted iron lampposts (about 17 feet high and 4 wide) set in them. The pedestals are decorated with garland and a fluted column featuring acanthus leaves at the top and bottom. Above the leaves is a horizontal bracket with two globes hanging from each side of the column. Each lamppost is topped with a painted iron eagle with its wings spread.[12]

A replica of the Bairstow eagles is seen in a World War I monument in Middletown, Delaware.[13]

>>18132979

of course it could habben.

does that mean he would commit suicide of taft bridge.

note, article below is of a woman trying to get barriers on Taft bridge due to suicide of long term partner, Dr Peter Tripp (unfortunete name)

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https://dcist.com/story/22/09/15/woman-pushes-suicide-barriers-on-dc-taft-bridge/

SEP 15, 2022, 8:47 AM

After A Tragedy, One Woman Is Fighting For Suicide Barriers On A D.C. Bridge

Dr. Chelsea Van Thof still remembers that night in mid-April, standing on the Duke Ellington Bridge in Adams Morgan. Through the gates that line the bridge, she could see the police lights some 130 feet below in Rock Creek Park, and she had a terrified feeling that was where she would find her long-term partner, Dr. Peter Tripp.

Tripp had left their Woodley Park apartment earlier that night, only to send her an alarming text in what became the last message they ever shared. She rushed out of bed, called a friend and the police, and set out in a frantic search for him.

“What I was thinking was this is a cry for help. No one does this on the first try. Peter’s never shown any sort of struggle with depression or thoughts of harming himself. We’re going to get him help. And whether or not that would have saved his life, I’ll never know,” she says.

Before Van Thof or police could find him, Tripp died by suicide at the William Howard Taft Bridge, the 115-year-old span that carries Connecticut Avenue across Rock Creek Park. He was 29. And it was only in the aftermath that Van Thof realized that the gates on the nearby Ellington Bridge from which she had seen the police lights serve a purpose — to stop people from jumping.

“Since I looked through the suicide barrier on the Ellington, I was infuriated that there wasn’t one on the Taft, an identical bridge in height and size,” she says. “I told my friend who was there under the bridge with me that night, ‘You know, I’m going to get a barrier on that bridge and I’m going to try for the rest of my life to do so.'

‘It looked like everything just rolled off his back’

Van Thof, 31, and Tripp met in veterinary school outside Boston, and what started as a friendship developed slowly into a romantic relationship. They moved to Oregon together to work at an animal hospital before coming to D.C. in 2020 so she could pursue a federal government fellowship. Tripp landed a job at District Veterinary Hospital in Brookland.

Van Thof says there was little outward indication that Tripp was struggling; she says he actually helped her through some of her own mental health challenges. “Peter was the sort that you could go to him with your problems. And it looked like everything just rolled off his back. Nothing bothered him,” she says.

It was the night of his death — and the text message he sent her — that made her realize the depth of his despair, one she says is shared by many fellow veterinarians.

“He had never told me how much impostor syndrome he had, which is very common in not only veterinarians, but PhDs as well. Just feeling like you’re not competent enough for the position you’re trusted with doing. And he said, ‘I never understood why you loved me. I just knew that I loved you,'” she says.

In the wake of Tripp’s death, Van Thof began reading about suicide barriers on bridges, and how many attempts at suicide are impulsive acts that can be stopped.

“It could have saved his life that night and it could have given me and his family more time. Even if he had walked there and was like, ‘Oh, maybe I can scale it.’ And then he didn’t. Maybe I could have, in that time, gotten to him,” she says.

conitnued in link above