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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

shit just gets worse and worse with these dumbfucks

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Libertarians and questionable behaviour when it comes to money, name a more iconic duo.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Libertarians and Questionable Behavior

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of my favorite Twitch streamers recently mentioned he's a libertarian. I can't watch him anymore. It's one thing when an edgy 20-year-old says it, but a grown ass man. He was also playing that MAGA band, which I didn't pick up on because their lyrics are hidden behind good music.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Libertarians Into MAGA… You know… Morons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Finn PRMBA?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ur not my typeface 🙅

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These kids were very dumb about their crimes. I’m not surprised rich people tried to do crimes, I’m just stunned at how bad these rich people were at it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They're all bad at it. This one wasn't stroking the right people to get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’m not surprised at how bad they are at it. These are highly educated rich people who think they’re smarter than they are. They probably think of crime as how stupid people without ethics get money. And so they cannonballed into white collar crime they believe that things like intelligence are just scalar values that they have a lot of. They aren’t going to think of all the little tricks you learn on small scale stuff.

Also a lot of their crimes are just reenactments of why finance laws exist but with crypto. Because they think it’s special since they got rich doing arbitrage but with crypto and they think they’re special visionaries. They’re pure ego, and often were rewarded for it.

[–] [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...

[–] [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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those money laundering accusations that got the funds locked up in China in the first place... I'm guessing they were true, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

shit.that.just.works