FTX Co-Founder’s Alleged Extravagance Revealed in Bankruptcy Court Papers

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Following the court filing that shows FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) wants access to FTXs $460 million in Robinhood stock, Delaware bankruptcy court documents show that tens of millions were spent by the FTX team in 2022 on housing, hotels, food, and flights. Additionally, quantitative trading firm SBF owes more than $55,000 to Jimmy Buffett’s resort town of Margaritaville after Alameda and FTX executives occupied 20 suites for a few months last year.

New court documents detail lavish spending by FTX co-founder and executives

With every court filing released, it seems the so-called “effective altruism” of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) hasn’t been a top priority for the past nine months. On January 8, 2023, Bitcoin.com News reported that SBF told the court that it needed access to Robinhood’s $460 million in stock to “pay its criminal defense.” Furthermore, the former FTX CEO explained that customers “only face the possibility of economic loss.”

SBF and his entourage lived in a $30 million penthouse at the 600-acre luxury beachfront resort of Albany in the Bahamas. The 12,000 square foot penthouse would have gone on sale on the market in mid-November. 2022.

Meanwhile, court documents reviewed this week detail that FTX and Alameda executives spent tens of millions of dollars on residential housing, hotels, food and flights last year. Records show $15.4 million was spent on luxury hotels and accommodations. Much of that money went towards paying for SBF’s $30 million luxury penthouse in the resort town of Albany. $3.6 million was used to buy hotel rooms at the Grand Hyatt, a four-star hotel, and $800,000 was spent at the Rosewood, a five-star hotel.

Reports also show that Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville resort owes more than $55,000 because resort management registered as a creditor in the bankruptcy case. FTX and Alameda employees reportedly stayed in 20 suites for several months last year, racking up the bill but never paying for accommodations in Margaritaville. In addition to hotels, luxury suites and luxury apartments, $3.9 million was spent on flights and private planes. When an FTX employee needed an Amazon package picked up in Miami, he allegedly used a private plane to ship the boxes to the island.

Other reports indicate that the co-founder was so selfless that SBF regularly spent more than $2,500 at the Nassau bistro for lunch and threw millions at Bahamian politicians and officials before FTX collapsed. Fox News revealed that SBF also owns a multimillion-dollar 52-foot HCB yacht. On Jan. 6, 2023, Business Insider’s Pete Syme reached out to SBF attorneys to ask about the seemingly lavish expenses the FTX co-founder allegedly participated in. request for comment,” Syme wrote.

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news manager for Bitcoin.com News and a fintech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He is passionate about Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written over 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about disruptive protocols emerging today.

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