Last Updated on November 11, 2022 by Bitfinsider

Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital and former director of communications for Trump, spoke on CNBC on Friday morning about his buddy and business partner Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of the failing cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

FTX, which acquired a 30% share in Scarmucci’s SkyBridge Capital in September, faces the possibility of bankruptcy after a “bank run” on the cryptocurrency exchange left it approximately $8 billion in the red. Bankman-Fried claims he was ignorant of the amount of user leverage due to inadequate internal account labeling.

Anthony Scaramucci hesitated to attribute the failure of the transaction to malice.

Scaramucci stated, “I don’t want to call it fraud right now because that’s a legal term.” I would beg Sam and his family to tell their investors the truth and get to the bottom of the matter.

Bankman-Fried tweeted “sorry” on Thursday morning, acknowledging that he “messed up” and “could have done better.”

According to Bankman-Fried, his first error was improper internal categorization of bank-related accounts, which caused him to be “significantly off” in his estimation of customers’ margin. I believed it to be much lower.

Scaramucci speculated that Bankman-Fried may have made mistakes during the down market for cryptocurrencies, notably in June 2022, when Three Arrows, a big cryptocurrency hedge fund, liquidated.

Friday, he told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin: “When Three Arrows went down, it’s possible that Sam had some difficulties, and then he made certain judgments that turned out to be bad for him and both sides of this organization.”

Scaramucci stated on Squawk Box that we go to the Bahamas to assist Bankman-Fried as investors and friends. When he arrived, it appeared beyond the scope of a basic liquidity rescue, he says.

Binance appears to have reached the same conclusion. The largest cryptocurrency company in the world terminated a non-binding agreement to rescue FTX after doing due diligence and learning about “mishandled client cash and purported US agency investigations.”

Scaramucci stated that when he and other investors initially assessed FTX as a potential business partner, there was no evidence of this mismanagement.

Scaramucci continued, “I suppose duped is the correct term, but I am very unhappy because I like Sam.” Because I was not an insider at FTX, I am unaware of what occurred.

Scaramucci stated, “There is a great deal of turmoil in the markets, and many of my friends believe this is the worst week in the history of cryptocurrencies.”

Scaramucci stated that he intends to repurchase his stake in SkyBridge from FTX, stating that his company did not own assets at FTX owing to a potential conflict of interest.