Bahamian officials arrived at Bankman-Fried’s penthouse in the Bahamas, where FTX was headquartered, while he was on the phone with his mom.
“Is Mister Sam Bankman-Fried here?” one officer asked once inside the $40 million pad that Bankman-Fried shared with 10 of his top staffers.
He was, though he was holed up in a bathroom furiously texting his mother what he should wear and what he should say in his testimony, Lewis wrote.
Bankman-Fried told his mother he planned to open with: “I f–ked up.”
You cannot say ‘f–k’ to a US congressional committee,” Fried responded.
Source: SBF, mom debated about what he should wear for FTX arrest