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Sam Bankman-Fried (Bebeto Matthews / AP)

Bankman-Fried ville betala Trump för att dra sig ur val

Den häktade FTX-grundaren Sam Bankman-Fried övervägde att betala president Donald Trump för att inte ställa upp för omval 2020. Det visar ett utdrag från Michael Lewis kommande bok om den fallne kryptomogulen, som återges i Washington Post.

Enligt Lewis ska Bankman-Frieds medarbetare ha kontaktat Trumps läger och då fått beskedet att prislappen var 5 miljarder dollar.

”Det var i alla fall vad Sams team berättade för honom”, skriver Lewis, som följde FTX-grundaren under året som kryptobörsen kollapsade.

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Michael Lewis
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Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with a degree in art history. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, Liar's Poker (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. His 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game was his first to be adapted into a film, The Blind Side (2009). In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The film adaptation of Moneyball was released in 2011, followed by The Big Short in 2015. Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and been notable selection features on the New York Times Bestsellers Lists.
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