Bipartisan Group of US Senators Calls for Independent Examiner to Investigate FTX
A bipartisan group of four U.S. senators has sent a letter to the judge in the FTX bankruptcy case calling for an independent examiner to be appointed.
The group is urging Judge John Dorsey to support a motion to appoint an examiner “to have full authority and resources to conduct a thorough, objective, investigation of the activities that led to the collapse of FTX.”
This is a developing story.
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