{"id":994073,"date":"2023-02-15T06:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=274102"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:56:06","slug":"a-vipers-nest-of-conflicts-and-intrigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/15\/a-vipers-nest-of-conflicts-and-intrigue\/","title":{"rendered":"A Viper\u2019s Nest of Conflicts and Intrigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, Big Law firm Sullivan &#038; Cromwell filed a conflict disclosure with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, where it was hoping to be officially appointed as lead counsel for the bankruptcy estate of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s collapsed crypto house of cards \u2013 FTX, Alameda Research and its more than 100 opaque affiliates. Judge John Dorsey signed the order making Sullivan &#038; Cromwell lead counsel on January 20, despite a mind-numbing list of conflicts of interests, including extensive past legal work for the FTX group and personal legal work for its now indicted kingpin, Sam Bankman-Fried. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/15\/a-vipers-nest-of-conflicts-and-intrigue\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/15\/a-vipers-nest-of-conflicts-and-intrigue\/\">A Viper&#8217;s Nest of Conflicts and Intrigue<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/15\/a-vipers-nest-of-conflicts-and-intrigue\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, Big Law firm Sullivan &#038; Cromwell filed a conflict disclosure with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, where it was hoping to be officially appointed as lead counsel for the bankruptcy estate of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s collapsed cryp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994076,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994073\/revisions\/994076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}