FTX Employees Were Encouraged to Keep Life Savings in the Now-Bankrupt Exchange, Sources Say

“It wasn’t just … that Sam and a small group around him perpetrated fraud, which they did,” Whittemore added. “From the moment the fraud was called out and the market started to react, every single ounce of their effort went into self preservation,” he added. “It was callous, cruel and utterly devoid of any genuine human consideration.”