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FTX tried a lawyer, Thai prostitutes and finally a bribe to get frozen funds unlocked, witness says::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They then tried to use the identification of Thai prostitutes to create accounts on those exchanges in a bid to get those funds back.

Not what I had in mind...

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

if the funds were frozen by the exchange how would having someone's identification tied to a (retail?) trading account have helped them?