CFTC Sues Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda for Law Violations

December 13, 2022, 2:30 PM UTC

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda Research for violations of federal commodities laws.

The top US derivatives regulator claims Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives took hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from Alameda they used to buy real estate and make donations to politicians.

“At Bankman-Fried’s direction, FTX executives created features in the underlying code for FTX that allowed Alameda to maintain an essentially unlimited line of credit on FTX,” the CFTC said in a complaint filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.

Bankman-Fried was the only individual defendant listed in the complaint.

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