Scaramucci talks FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried and 'the worst week in cryptocurrency history'

Anthony Scaramucci, the laminitis of SkyBridge Capital and short-time Trump communications director, spoke connected CNBC's Squawk Box Friday greeting astir person and concern spouse Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the crumbling crypto speech FTX.

FTX, which took a 30% involvement successful Scarmucci's SkyBridge Capital successful September, is facing imaginable bankruptcy aft a 'bank run' connected the crypto speech near it astir $8 cardinal short. Bankman-Fried says helium was unaware of the grade of idiosyncratic leverage due to the fact that of mediocre interior labeling of bank-related accounts.

Anthony Scaramucci was hesitant to property the exchange's nonaccomplishment to malice.

"I don't privation to telephone it fraud astatine this infinitesimal due to the fact that that's really a ineligible term," Scaramucci said. "I would implore Sam and his household to archer the information to their investors, get to the bottommost of it."

Bankman-Fried tweeted Thursday morning that helium is "sorry," admitting that helium "f---ed up" and "should person done better."

Bankman-Fried said his archetypal mistake was mediocre interior labeling of bank-related accounts, which meant that helium was "substantially off" connected his consciousness of users' margin. "I thought it was mode lower."

Scaramucci speculated that Bankman-Fried could person made mistakes successful the throes of the crypto carnivore market, specifically erstwhile Three Arrows, a monolithic cryptocurrency hedge fund, liquidated successful June 2022.

"When Three Arrows went down, it could beryllium possible, Andrew, that Sam had trouble then, and past helium made immoderate decisions that turned retired to beryllium disastrous for him and some sides of this business," helium said Friday, speaking to CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Scaramucci told Squawk Box that we went to the Bahamas to assistance Bankman-Fried arsenic an capitalist and friend. When helium got there, helium says, it appeared beyond the constituent of a elemental liquidity rescue.

Binance seems to person made the aforesaid assessment. The world's largest cryptocurrency steadfast broke a non-binding woody to rescue FTX aft conducting owed diligence and the quality "regarding mishandled lawsuit funds and alleged US bureau investigations."

Scaramucci said helium didn't spot grounds of this mishandling erstwhile helium and different investors archetypal screened FTX arsenic a imaginable concern partner.

"Duped I conjecture is the close word, but I americium precise disappointed due to the fact that I bash similar Sam," Scaramucci continued. "I don't cognize what happened due to the fact that I was not an insider astatine FTX."

"There's a batch of distress successful the markets, and a batch of my friends deliberation it's the worst week successful cryptocurrency history," Scaramucci said.

Scaramucci said helium plans to bargain backmost his equity successful SkyBridge from FTX, noting that his steadfast did not clasp assets astatine FTX owed to a imaginable struggle of interest.