FTX Trust to Appeal Over Ex-Employee’s Donation of Bonus Pay

Jan. 23, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

A trust working to recover funds for FTX creditors is appealing a ruling allowing a former employee recruited by Sam Bankman-Fried to direct $650,000 in bonus pay to an effective altruism-tied nonprofit.

The FTX estate, which this week lost a fight in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to Ross Rheingans-Yoo over his decision to send Chapter 11 recovery funds to nonprofit 1Day Sooner Inc., filed notice Thursday that it would have a higher court review the challenge.

The dispute, which will head to a Delaware federal district court judge, concerns the allowance of Rheingans-Yoo’s creditor claim ...

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