In the fraud scandal storm that is swirling around FTX Cryptocurrency and its disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, it’s tempting to have little sympathy for the victims. Because so far all we know is that the people who lost money seem to be the types who have lots of it. Brand ambassadors like Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Steph Curry, Larry David and the like. I mean, so far it doesn’t sound like a situation where Mr. Potter is going to take over every piece of property in Bedford Falls once the Bailey Brothers Building & Loan goes under and throw a bunch of widows into debtor’s prison. The lights will be staying on in all these celebrities’ vacation homes. And Gisele is not going to have to do some babysitting jobs on the side to put food on the table.
But still, there are lines that you do not cross. Being an eccentric kook who looks like a human unmade bed and has the oddly on-point name of a Bond villain with a strange ability to suck famous people into a Ponzi scheme while having group sex with your goofy, LARP-enthusiast friends:
… doesn’t give you carte blanche to ripoff anyone you want. There are limits to what we’re willing to accept. Some celebrities are off limits. Even sacred. And one of them, is Jimmy Buffett:
Source – FTX-backed cryptocurrency firm Alameda owes more than $55,000 to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville beach resort, based in the Bahamas. …
[B]ankruptcy documents did reveal creditors to Alameda, which was run by disgraced…
