Anthony Scaramucci says he bought Sam Bankman-Fried a suit for their Middle East fundraising tour and that the trip sparked FTX's downfall
is the same one Scaramucci said he bought for him, though it is a different style from the one he was last photographed in during a Congressional hearing last May.Bankman-Fried's tour came just weeks before FTX's bankruptcy, and the SkyBridge Capital CEO directly linked the two, saying,"Our trip to the Middle East led to his immediate downfall."
As evidence, he said Bankman-Fried had bad-mouthed his rival crypto CEO Changpeng"CZ" Zhao of Binance.in November that Bankman-Fried had also criticized Zhao in private meetings in Washington. Scaramucci told Insider that Bankman-Fried"was saying some nasty things about CZ" in Saudi Arabia and that it had prompted the Binance CEO to sell much of his"So in some ways, I'm happy that we took that trip because we could still be living in a world of FTX," Scaramucci said."He could have continued to cover it up, and I could have erroneously helped him do that by helping them raise money and building other corporate relationships.
"I had a relationship with Sam — I liked and I trusted him," he added."And so when somebody betrays your trust like that, it's upsetting. Hopefully, he'll serve some time in jail for what he did, and the industry can move on and grow and hopefully heal from it."Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
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