The following is a lightly edited excerpt from our December 1st conference call for Inner Circle subscribers, Puck’s highest tier of membership, featuring Eriq Gardner and Teddy Schleifer in discussion with executive editor Ben Landy. We hold these calls for Inner Circle members every other week, among other benefits; to join our next live off-the-record session, upgrade your membership here.
Ben Landy: Let’s start with one of the central questions about this FTX disaster: What happens to all of the money that Sam Bankman-Fried distributed? Even if it didn’t come directly out of customer accounts, in practical terms it seems to have had the same effect—customer deposits were used against bets at Sam’s associated hedge fund, Alameda Research. What happens to those funds? Can they be recovered in bankruptcy court?
