The Egregious Arrogance of Sam Bankman-Fried (& his ilk)

Helena Cobban
24 min readDec 20, 2022

On December 13, the House Financial Services Committee held a long-awaited hearing into the collapse of the FTX crypto empire. FTX’s disgraced former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried could not, as he had hoped to, testify there in person because he was sitting, as Inmate 14–372, in a jail in the Bahamas. Instead, the committee heard an interim report from John Ray III, the seasoned bankruptcy lawyer…

Helena Cobban

Veteran analyst of global affairs, with some focus on the Middle East. Senior Fellow, Ctr for International Policy. Fuller bio at my Wikipedia page.