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SBF

S.B.F.’s Jack and Jackie

Ryan Salame and Michelle Bond were the wedding cake-top couple in the S.B.F. orbit: the good-looking, charismatic, uber-ambitious, highly socialized D.C. creatures among the bean bag crowd. Will Salame flip on S.B.F. just like the rest of them?
Theodore Schleifer • May 9, 2023
William D. Cohan • April 19, 2023
S.B.F. & The Mooch’s Arabian Nights
Anthony Scaramucci first met S.B.F. over Zoom, in and around March 2021, at the suggestion of a mutual friend.
What could possibly go wrong on a heavy-duty fundraising trip to the Middle East (with cameos from M.B.S., Jared, and Schwarzman) with FTX secretly on the brink of collapse?
William D. Cohan • April 12, 2023
The S.B.F. Financial Autopsy
FTX interim C.E.O. John J. Ray III wrote that the lack of records and controls at S.B.F.’s company was so “pervasive,” that he and his team had to “start from scratch,” in order to “simply identify the assets.”
The first interim report by John J. Ray III, the restructuring guru and C.E.O. of the remains of FTX, depicts a horror show of moronic Gen Z hubris, financial impropriety, deceit, and so much more.
Jeff Bezos, in his putative pursuit of the Commanders, has essentially thrown away the typical playbook for purchasing a sports team.
Theodore Schleifer • April 11, 2023
More Bezos NFL Murmurs & An S.B.F. Co-Conspirator Mystery
Scoops from the internal rumblings in and around the three comma club: the latest details about Bezos’s Commanders interest, the tech G.O.P. bundling wars, and the silence of FTX’s CC-2, Ryan Salame.
At a high level, Reid Hoffman doesn’t view the Florida governor as an existential threat to democracy, unlike Trump, and believes he may even have the ability to successfully govern.
Theodore Schleifer • March 21, 2023
S.B.F. Informants & A Strange DeSantis Bedfellow
New details on the subpoenas and next cards to flip in the FTX campaign-finance case. Plus, why Reid Hoffman might be offering some unlikely assistance to DeSantis.
Prosecutors may see the case against Sam Bankman-Fried as Bernie Madoff 2.0, but S.B.F.’s got good lawyers.
Theodore Schleifer & Eriq Gardner • March 7, 2023
Will S.B.F. Cut a Deal?
A close reading of the latest developments and looming mysteries: Can S.B.F. flip on a politician? Is Ryan Salame the next FTX insider to plead guilty? What will happen to the parents, Barbara and Joe, and to the brother, G.B.F? And will the case even make it to trial?
aHigh-ranking FTX executives Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh appear central to an alleged straw-donor scheme quarterbacked by S.B.F.
Theodore Schleifer • March 1, 2023
Inside S.B.F.’s “Woke Shit” Influence Scheme
FTX executives Nishad Singh, who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to campaign-finance charges, and Ryan Salame were simultaneously players and pawns in S.B.F.’s political influence machine in Washington.
The allegation in the indictment doesn’t concern the fact that S.B.F. and his allies coordinated their political contributions—instead, the S.D.N.Y. describes something far more brazen.
Theodore Schleifer • February 23, 2023
Decoding the S.B.F. Political Conspiracy
The prosecution’s new narrative correctly ignores the coordination of political contributions in S.B.F. world and focuses instead on a more brazen fraud.
A new federal investigation suggests that the political and campaign-finance elements of the S.B.F. case may be broader than originally known.
Theodore Schleifer • February 21, 2023
The Next S.B.F. Legal Riddle: What’s in Puerto Rico?
An elite unit of the Department of Justice has taken an interest in the political side of the FTX case, raising the possibility of more indictments to come.
Paramount Global chairperson Shari Redstone can pretty much do whatever she wants at the now-combined entity, including replacing its C.E.O., its board and single-handedly deciding whether the company should be sold.
William D. Cohan • February 19, 2023
Shari’s Choice, An S.B.F. Twist & Apollo’s Kingdom
News and notes from the inside conversation on Wall Street: the future of Paramount Global, the latest on the FTX bankruptcy, and a close reading of a monster private equity deal.