Sam Bankman-Fried has promised to help chase down the celebrity promoters of the collapsed FTX.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, has signed a settlement agreement with a group of clients of the exchange to help prosecute the company's famous promoters.
In return, the affected investors will drop the class action against SBF.
The document has not yet been approved by the court. If approved, the settlement agreement will release Bankman-Fried from both current and future civil liability related to the FTX crash.
The essence of the deal is that the former FTX CEO will provide plaintiffs ' lawyers with information, including documents and testimony, to make claims against celebrities and venture capital firms promoting the exchange.
SBF also agreed to transfer financial data, including personal balance sheets of its remaining assets and a list of investment transactions.
Former colleagues of Bankman-Fried-Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang and Dan Friedberg - have already signed similar settlement agreements.
Several celebrity promoters affiliated with the case, including Andrew Jih, Graham Stefan, Jaspreet Singh, Tom Nash, Brian Jung, and Jeremy Lefebvre, settled the claims by contributing a total of $1.4 million to a fund to fund future FTX-related lawsuits.
However, most famous influencers like Tom Brady, Stephen Curry, Shaquille O'Neal, Naomi Osaka, Shohei Otani, as well as supermodels Gisele Bundchen intend to defend their innocence in court.
In November 2023, during a live broadcast of an NBA game, O'Neill received a subpoena for promoting FTX. Prior to this, the basketball player had already received a notice in the exchange's case, but the star's lawyers challenged the complaint.
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