During SBF’s criminal trial, Nishad Singh, FTX’s former director of engineering, read to the court a list of transactions in a spreadsheet showing that FTX had provided well over $1 billion in promotional funds to celebrities and influencers.
Those deals include FTX spending $135 million to rename Miami's famed entertainment center FTX Arena (now Kaseya Center). The list also includes a $28 million payment to NBA basketball player Steph Curry, a $14 million payment to Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary, and an undisclosed amount to NFL quarterback Tom Brady, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and actor Larry David. . Singh said the transactions totaled $1.3 billion. (The Block)
According to previous news, crypto KOL Autism Capital released some information about the FTX trial on the FTX CTO Gary Wang and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh handed over their personal assets - including cryptocurrency and Serum (SRM) - to Alameda to maintain operations. He even included his own personal FTX stake, which he had tried to hide in Paper Bird, another independent non-Alameda/FTX entity he owned.