{"id":8729,"date":"2023-01-24T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/im-a-corporate-fraud-investigator-you-wouldnt-believe-the-hubris-of-the-super-rich\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:39:00","slug":"im-a-corporate-fraud-investigator-you-wouldnt-believe-the-hubris-of-the-super-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/im-a-corporate-fraud-investigator-you-wouldnt-believe-the-hubris-of-the-super-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a corporate fraud investigator. You wouldn\u2019t believe the hubris of the super-rich"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the fraudsters I\u2019ve encountered are often cunning, sooner or later they get carried away<\/p>\n

FTX\u2019s HQ, we now know, was not your typical one. CEO Sam Bankman-Fried ran his business from a $40m Bahamian penthouse named the Orchid<\/a>, complete with Venetian plaster walls and a grand piano. The lot was nestled beside a championship golf course and a mega-yacht marina. Since Amazon doesn\u2019t deliver to the Bahamas, private jets did the job instead.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t your typical corporate HQ \u2013 but then, FTX is not your typical corporation. It\u2019s bankrupt, dragged down by its own financial abuses, with its chief executive facing prison. Yet while FTX has made headlines, its tale is not as unusual as you might think.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile the fraudsters I\u2019ve encountered are often cunning, sooner or later they get carried away
\nFTX\u2019s HQ, we now know, was not your typical one. CEO Sam Bankman-Fried ran his business from a $40m Bahamian penthouse named the Orchid, complete with Venetian plaster walls and a grand piano. The lot was nestled beside a championship golf course and a mega-yacht marina. Since Amazon doesn\u2019t deliver to the Bahamas, private jets did the job instead.
\nIt wasn\u2019t your typical corporate HQ \u2013 but then, FTX is not your typical corporation. It\u2019s bankrupt, dragged down by its own financial abuses, with its chief executive facing prison. Yet while FTX has made headlines, its tale is not as unusual as you might think. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the fraudsters I\u2019ve encountered are often cunning, sooner or later they get carried away FTX\u2019s HQ, we now know, was not your typical one. CEO Sam Bankman-Fried ran his business from a $40m Bahamian penthouse named the Orchid, complete with Venetian plaster walls and a grand piano. The lot was nestled beside a championship …<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a corporate fraud investigator. You wouldn\u2019t believe the hubris of the super-rich<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}