According to a recent report from a court-appointed examiner, the collapsed crypto exchange FTX disbursed over $25 million in hush money to whistleblowers prior to its downfall in November 2022. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appointed Robert J. Cleary, a renowned lawyer and former lead prosecutor on the Unabomber case, to investigate FTX amid its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.
Hard to believe but evidently true. Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX has located more than $5 billion of assets. "We have located over 5 billion dollars of cash, liquid cryptocurrency and liquid investment securities," Andy Dietderich, an attorney for FTX, told US Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey in Delaware. However, a US bankruptcy court was told on Wednesday that the extent of customer losses is still unknown.
The FTX Group, with 101 additional affiliated companies (the "FTX Debtors"), announced that as a part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, they are launching a strategic review of their global assets to begin to maximize recoverable value for stakeholders. The FTX Debtors have engaged Perella Weinberg Partners LP ("PWP") as the lead investment bank and commenced preparing to sell certain businesses and reorganization the new CEO, John j. Ray announced.