Bankman-Fried Criticizes New FTX CEO, Questions Why US Customer Funds Still Not Returned

Andrew Ross Sorkin and Sam Bankman-Fried on stage at the 2022 New York Times DealBook in New York City on Nov. 30, 2022. Thos Robinson/Getty Images for The New York Times

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who stepped down as CEO after the company’s bankruptcy, has publicly questioned why FTX customer funds hadn’t been returned to U.S. exchange users.

“When I filed, I’m fairly sure FTX US was solvent, and that all US customers could be made whole. To my knowledge, it still is today,” he wrote on Twitter on Dec. 1. “I was expecting that to happen. I’m surprised it hasn’t. I’m not sure why US withdrawals were turned off.”