© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Consultant and chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) attends the Home Monetary Companies Committee listening to on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. Al Drago/Pool by way of REUTERS/File Photograph
By David Morgan
(Reuters) – Home Monetary Companies Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (NYSE:) advised Reuters on Thursday that she is ready to subpoena FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, if he doesn’t agree to seem earlier than the panel subsequent week, and he or she is understanding one of the simplest ways to do it.
“We have made it clear that we would like Sam at our listening to on Dec. 13. If he doesn’t cooperate, then we’re ready to subpoena,” Waters stated in an interview within the U.S. Capitol.
Regulators across the globe, together with within the Bahamas the place FTX relies and in the US, are investigating the position of FTX’s prime executives together with Bankman-Fried within the agency’s beautiful collapse, Reuters has beforehand reported. The crypto change filed for chapter final month after a liquidity disaster that noticed a minimum of $1 billion of buyer funds vanish.
Prosecutors and regulators haven’t charged Bankman-Fried with any crime.
Waters stated she has the authority to concern a subpoena herself however may put it to a committee vote, including she would first work out the process with Consultant Patrick McHenry, the Republican lawmaker who will chair the panel when his celebration assumes management of the Home in January. She stated no determination has been made thus far. “I may actually do it myself. We might in all probability do a vote,” she stated. “I’ve to work it out with Mr. McHenry how we do it. However we’ll concern a subpoena.”
“Both he participates or not. And that is after we make our determination,” Waters stated. “It is solely correct and proper, and makes good sense, to say we would like you right here.”
She declined to say whether or not Bankman-Fried can be required to seem in particular person or may testify by video hyperlink.
A spokesperson for Bankman-Fried declined to remark. McHenry’s workplace was not instantly out there for remark.
