Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, sought to pay former President Donald Trump $5 billion not to run for president again, according to biographer Michael Lewis.
Lewis clarified that he was not sure if the former FTX CEO, who has been indicted for many alleged crimes surrounding the collapse of the FTX digital currency exchange, actually spoke to Trump or Trump’s team.
The “number that was kicking around,” Lewis said, “when I was talking to Sam about this was $5 billion.” He added, “Sam wasn’t sure that number came directly from Trump.”
The author of The Big Short became familiar with Bankman-Fried before the collapse of FTX. His new book, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon will be released on Tuesday.The biographer also noted that Bankman-Fried questioned if paying a politician to withdraw from a […]
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