FTX Lawyer Who Made Problems Disappear Is Caught Up in Fallout

He was the ultimate crypto cleaner – a lawyer, fixer and more for Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX business empire.

Daniel Friedberg, FTX’s former chief regulatory officer, now is being pulled even deeper into the intrigue surrounding his former boss Bankman-Fried, who’s hurtling toward one of the biggest white-collar criminal trials in US history. In a lawsuit filed last week, the new management of FTX accused Friedberg of enabling Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes, and helping to orchestrate a “wide-ranging con game” to raid billions of customer dollars.

Legal documents, screen shots of messages involving Friedberg seen by Bloomberg ...