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Bankman-Fried was arrested, charged with fraud over the FTX collapse and placed on house arrest in December, he wrote hundreds of pages of sometimes confusing self-justifications, ranging from childhood memories to mathematical calculations. In a draft of his unsent posts, which he formatted as a series of tweets spanning approximately 70 typed pages, he criticized some of his closest colleagues, interspersing his arguments with photographs from his high school years and archival images of popcorn from corn and a garden maze. Every few pages, a key moment in the narrative is accompanied by a link to a music video by Alicia Keys, Katy Perry or Rihanna. Bankman-Fried, 31, once a prolific Twitter poster, now known as X, labeled the thread “a draft of a draft of a draft of an idea” and included links to 29 other files about FTX. One document, titled “Inception V2,” is a lengthy attack on the company's bankruptcy lawyers, and features a screenshot from the 2010 Christopher Nolan film. A separate link shows a spreadsheet listing orders for Mr. Bankman-Fried's Amazon starting in 2021. The approximately 250 pages of documents, which have not been previously reported, provide a window into Mr. Bankman-Fried's mindset during the eight months he spent on house detention before a judge revoked his bail in August.


The briefs also offer new details about his possible legal defense beyond what his lawyers have revealed in court, shedding light on how he can justify his actions when his trial begins on October Prosecutors have Job Function Email Database accused Bankman-Fried of orchestrating a scheme to funnel FTX client funds into a hedge fund he founded, Alameda Research, so his companies could make venture capital investments, buy real estate and donate to politicians. He has pleaded not guilty and faces decades in prison if he is convicted. During his house arrest, Mr. Bankman-Fried sent the documents to Tiffany Fong , a social media influencer who has a YouTube channel about the crypto industry. Ms. Fong shared them with The News. “She liked that I don't work for anyone,” she said. "He thinks I can come to my own conclusions." A representative for Bankman-Fried declined to comment. In several documents, Bankman-Fried blamed Caroline Ellison, his ex-girlfriend and former lieutenant, for helping cause FTX to implode. She described her as ill-prepared for the job she assigned him as director of Alameda, alleging that she had cried during a meeting with him and she refused to implement business strategies that would have protected her business from a market downturn. 





She continually avoided talking about risk management, dodging my suggestions, until it was too late," he wrote in a document titled "Alameda's Failure to Cover." “Every time I asked her for suggestions, she made her feel worse. I’m sure being an ex didn’t help.” In the Twitter draft,-Fried also criticized Sam , who was co-CEO of Alameda. Trabucco and Ellison did not get along, according to the document. And while had good risk management instincts, Bankman-Fried wrote, at the end of 2021 “he was in the process of quietly leaving.”  preferred to spend her time “going on dates with a bunch of guys while sailing around the world on a boat,” Bankman-Fried wrote. He then linked to a music video, “Cheers (Drink to That)” by Rihanna. Ellison and two of Bankman-Fried's other top advisers pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to testify against him. A fourth pleaded guilty this month without promising to cooperate. Mr. Trabucco has not been charged with any crime. Lawyers for Trabucco and Ellison declined to comment. Once hailed as a reliable force in the loosely regulated world of cryptocurrencies, FTX imploded in November, costing customers billions of dollars and devastating the industry. After his arrest, Mr. Bankman-Fried was granted bail and allowed to live with his parents, who are long-time Stanford law professors, at his home in Palo.