Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother and brother are not cooperating with the FTX legal team’s investigations into the Bahamans-based exchange’s bankruptcy and misappropriation of customer funds, Wednesday’s court filing claimed.
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Fast facts
- FTX attorneys have requested authorization to issue subpoenas to former top FTX executives and advisors, which include the founder’s brother, mother and father. FTX lawyers claimed that Bankman-Fried’s family members may hold critical information to the recovery of funds.
- Bankman-Fried’s mother and political advisor, Barbara Fried, has allegedly “ignored the requests altogether.” His brother and political advisor, Gabriel Bankman-Fried also hasn’t responded to FTX lawyers.
- Gabriel Bankman-Fried has purchased a multimillion-dollar property using misappropriated customer funds, the filings alleged.
- The filing further alleged that Gabriel Bankman-Fried’s lobbying organization, Guarding Against Pandemics, seeked to influence legislation, endorse political candidates and “coordinated closely with his brother on political donations.”
- According to the filings, Joseph Bankman, Bankman-Fried’s father and close advisor, stated that he and his wife “resided in a US$16.4 million house titled in their names, despite understanding that the house was intended to be the company’s property,” in their visits to the Bahamas.
- Bankman and former FTX chief operating officer Zhe (Constance) Wang are expected to “agree to produce responsive documents.”
- FTX co-founder Zixiao (Gary) Wang and former chief of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison declined to provide the requested information, while FTX co-founder Nishad Singh hasn’t responded, the filings said.
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