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FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried was found at JFK Airport in a business enterprise course lounge on Thursday.
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Litquidity tweeted photographs of the previous CEO before he boarded a flight to San Francisco.
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Bankman-Fried was introduced on a $250 million bond while awaiting demo.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been pictured in the American Airlines small business class lounge at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport before flying to his parents’ house at Palo Alto, California on Thursday.
The cofounder and previous CEO of collapsed crypto trading system FTX was released on a $250 million bond on Thursday. He was demanded to surrender his passport and stay with his mothers and fathers forward of a federal trial around the failure of FTX.
Litquidity tweeted shots of Bankman-Fried at JFK on Thursday.
Bankman-Fried was arrested on December 13 in the Bahamas, exactly where his enterprise was headquartered, as federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an eight-depend legal complaint from him.
He was flown to New York on Wednesday evening right after a Bahamian justice of the peace, who denied him bail on rates there, signed off on the extradition to the US.
Crypto reporter Tiffany Fong also tweeted a image of Bankman-Fried on his AA flight.
FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy defense on November 11, wiping out purchaser deposits worthy of billions. Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO the exact working day.
A lawyer for Bankman-Fried did not immediately respond to a ask for for comment by Insider.
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