“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone,” Sam Bankman-Fried insisted on Wednesday.
Capping a series of ill-advised interviews, the former FTX CEO appeared virtually atAppearing virtually from the Bahamas, where he was seated in a dim room next to a single plant, a sullen Bankman-Fried sought to salvage his decimated reputation, insisting he did not “ever try to commit fraud on anyone.
“I made a lot of mistakes,” he said, a stark understatement considering that both U.S. and Bahamian authorities are investigating the company’s downfall. Audience members, who spent the day buzzing about whether Bankman-Fried would actually appear, eagerly pulled out their phones to get a snapshot of the beleaguered crypto tycoon. Each row of the Lincoln Center conference room saw attendees crossing their arms with skepticism as he spoke.Ever the strategist, he exchanged a series of direct messages with a Vox reporter earlier this month, in which hethat his philanthropic reputation was at least partly a bogus public-relations play.
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