Tag: FTX

IRS claiming $44B from FTX bankruptcy: Report

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The single biggest claim involves unpaid partnership and income taxes of $20.4 billion assessed against Alameda Research. The United States Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have filed 45 claims worth $44 billion against bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its subsidiaries. In what appears to be a tax bill for FTX’s sister company Alameda Research LLC that circulated online on May 10, the IRS assessed the firm $20.4 billion due in partnership taxes and payroll taxes. The assessment appears to match the IRS claim found on the website of Kroll…

Shaquille O’Neal claims process servers ‘tossed’ FTX legal papers at his moving car

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Lawyers for NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, who previously endorsed the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, have claimed two process servers inadequately delivered legal documents after previously failed attempts. In a May 8 filing for United States District Court in the Southern District of Florida, Shaq’s legal team said following “a failed motion to serve” the NBA star, two process servers “tossed” papers for a legal complaint in front of his moving car. According to the filing, Shaq did not stop to pick up the papers, but left them in the road.…

FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Seeks Dismissal of Charges Filed After Extradition – Exchanges Bitcoin News

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Former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has asked a judge in the U.S. to dismiss several charges against him filed after his extradition from the Bahamas. His lawyers insist that prosecutors have not obtained consent from Bahamian authorities for the additional counts. FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Urges Court to Drop Post-Extradition Charges Attorneys representing Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), co-founder and ex-chief executive of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, have filed a series of motions in Manhattan federal court on Monday, requesting the dismissal of a number of criminal charges against…

Former FTX CEO SBF Files Motion to Dismiss Fraud Charges

Meanwhile, the defunct FTX continues to pursue various options to recover customer funds. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has on Monday filed an ex parte motion before a Federal Court. The motion, as filed through the office, seeks to dismiss 10 out of 13 US charges against the former CEO. The remaining charges include conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Interestingly, the former CEO previously pled ‘Not guilty” to all the allegations laid against him. According to Bankman-Fried’s attorneys, the…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried urges court to dismiss charges

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FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is seeking to have up to 10 criminal charges against him dismissed in court, arguing for several counts that there has been a failure to state an offense.  According to court documents filed in the southern district court of New York on May 8, SBF’s legal team has pushed to dismiss everything apart from three counts of conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Sam Bankman-Fried has filed motions to dismiss all but…

FTX bankruptcy judge approves sale of LedgerX

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The judge presiding over crypto exchange FTX’s bankruptcy case has given the green light to a motion allowing the sale of LedgerX. In a May 4 hearing in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Judge John Dorsey approved a motion from the FTX debtors filed in April to sell LedgerX to M7 Holdings, an affiliate of Miami International Holdings. FTX said at the time of the purchase agreement that the total proceeds of the transaction would total roughly $50 million. According to lawyers speaking at the hearing,…

FTX Officials Seek to Recover Over $3.88B from DCG-backed Genesis Global

The officials claim FTX-affiliated Alameda Research had largely repaid the $8 billion borrowed from Genesis Trading, a few weeks before the former filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The bankrupt FTX and Alameda Research officials are stopping at nothing to recover lost funds by the former administration led by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). The crypto exchange under John J. Ray III, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer, has sued several entities including soliciting politicians from both isles to refund cash donated by SBF. Furthermore, Ray indicated the exchange may never…

Mainstream media renew push for non-US FTX user identities

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Four media outlets in the United States have continued efforts to get the identities of non-U.S. FTX customers revealed, filing new objections to a previous motion to seal their identities.  Bloomberg, Dow Jones, The New York Times and The Financial Times first filed a motion objecting to FTX and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors being authorized to redact and withhold customer information on Jan 11. While the court previously had heard similar arguments by the four firms, the May 3 filing made a new objection to the Committee’s motion…