Weekly Roundup 12/16/22 (SBF Arrest, Binance’s ‘Bank run’, Gensler, FTX, and IEX) (EP.381)

Matt and Nic are back for another wild week of news and deals. In this episode: 

  • Is SBF currently interned in a top 5 prison on earth?
  • SBF is finally arrested
  • We enumerate the charges from the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ
  • What kind of sentence could Sam be looking at here?
  • The CFTC’s interesting argument for standing over FTX
  • SBF is charged is campaign finance violations Confirming that Alameda did have latency and other advantages trading on FTX
  • SBF’s parents face growing scrutiny
  • What’s the deal with Gensler’s calendar?
  • Gensler comes under more scrunity for his FTX/IEX meetings
  • Mr. John Ray is a new star of CT
  • We have a new possible category for bad boys
  • McCaffrey resigns from The Block after revealing loans from SBF
  • Elizabeth Warren proposed a hostile anti-crypto bill
  • Do Kwon is reportedly in Serbia
  • The DOJ is reportedly split over charging Binance
  • What’s the deal with the Binance ‘bank run’?

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