[ZERO] He just can't help himself: disgraced sociopath, record-breaking fraudster and prolific Democratic donor - not necessarily in that order - Sam Bankman-Fried, has issued another apology to his staff in a letter that outlined a crash in "collateral" to less than $9 billion from $60 billion."I'm Mini-Madoff and this is my world."
"I didn’t mean for any of this to happen, and I would give anything to be able to go back and do things over again," the corpulent 30-year-old who may or may not be in the Bahamas apologized yet again in the message sent to employees Tuesday, although he really should be apologizing to the millions of clients whom he wiped out. Alas, like the recurrent ramblings of a psychopath, Sam's takeaway was that the implosion at FTX was the side-effect of an unfortunate bank run, and had nothing to do with SBF's actions; that's because SBF still refuses to take any responsibility for what happened and makes zero admission that the factors that led to this historic bankruptcy were in his control all along. Sam claims that he didn't "realize the magnitude of risk." His main remorse - like that of any pathological individual - is that he got caught.
Mental illness defense taking shape.
Still don't believe us he was a sociopath? Read this:
I didn't mean for any of this to happen, and I would give anything to be able to go back and do things over again. You were my family. I've lost that, and our old home is an empty warehouse of monitors. When I turn around, there's no one left to talk to. I disappointed all of you, and when things broke down I failed to communicate. I froze up in the face of pressure and leaks and the Binance LOI and said nothing. I lost track of the most important things in the commotion of company growth. I care deeply about you all, and you were my family, and I'm sorry.
No he isn't, and if it wasn't his fault, whose fault was it? Well, as he "describes" the sequence of events, you see it was all the market's fault as a slide in digital-asset markets in spring roughly halved collateral from $60 billion to $30 billion, while liabilities were $2 billion. A combination of a credit squeeze, a further selloff in virtual coins and a "run on the bank" left collateral at $9 billion ahead of FTX’s Nov. 11 bankruptcy, he wrote. The estimate for liabilities had reached $8 billion by then. Here is how, in his words, what was initially a $58 billion overcollateralized balance sheet ended up having more liabilities than assets.