FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried granted a rare interview with independent crypto journalist Tiffany Fong. In the conversation, the elusive founder addressed a number of controversies that have surrounded him over the past few weeks, including commingling client funds, relations with Ukraine, donations to the Democratic party, and more.
“I’m not a journalist by profession,” Fong told The Epoch Times. She explained that her introduction to reporting came after losing a “substantial” portion of her savings to the collapsed decentralized finance project Celsius in June, a topic she then began covering.
According to her, Fong was able to land the interview because Bankman-Fried had followed her on Twitter after being intrigued by her reporting on Celsius, which led to “a few brief but friendly exchanges” between the two. The recorded phone call, posted to Fong’s YouTube channel, touches on many of the headlines that have appeared across the spectrum of media since the story broke in early November….