By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 16, 2022 ~ Over the past week Wall Street On Parade has reached out to a number of individuals connected to FTX Capital Markets, the stock trading platform and SEC-registered brokerage firm that was majority owned by the indicted crypto kingpin, Sam Bankman-Fried. We’ve received two answers to our questions: Either, “I can’t talk about it” or “no comment.” Regulators have been just as tight-lipped. When we emailed one of the lawyers handling the bankruptcy process for FTX, James Bromley of Sullivan & Cromwell, the response came back from a crisis management/public relations firm, Joelle Frank. Their response was “decline to comment.” Bankman-Fried’s ability to enter the regulated world of stock trading in the U.S. while, according to Justice Department prosecutors, he was operating a vast fraud, raises red flags about what other crypto firms may be doing or contemplating. Despite all of the … Continue reading A Sam Bankman-Fried Company that Was Not in Bankruptcy Has Gone Poof; Regulators Are Drawing a Dark Curtain