Sam Bankman- Fried convinced a person with his media tour after the collapse of the FTX, the hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman.
Bankman- Fried has spoken to multiple outlets, from Axios to the New York Times, and an interview with Good Morning America was scheduled to air early on Thursday. He believes that he did not commit fraud, that he didn't knowingly commingle funds, and was surprised by the large position of the hedge fund Alameda that he owned.
There is a significant discrepancy between what the financials were, what the auditing financials were, what the exchange understood — all of that was consistent versus what the dashboards we had displayed for Alameda's account there, which substantially underdisplayed the size of that position. That was one of the reasons that I was surprised when we dug into everything — at how big that position had become, Bankman- Fried told Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times. Ackman, the chief executive of Pershing Square, tweeted he believed this account. Bankman- Fried replied that he appreciated the sentiment. He said that I m going to do everything I can to make it right, even though I knew it might never be enough. That sentiment was not shared by most others who replied to Ackman.