{"id":83345,"date":"2022-12-09T00:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=83345"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:20:26","slug":"ftx-spokesman-kevin-oleary-says-he-lost-his-15-million-payday-from-crypto-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2022\/ftx-spokesman-kevin-oleary-says-he-lost-his-15-million-payday-from-crypto-firm.html","title":{"rendered":"FTX spokesman Kevin O\u2019Leary says he lost his $15 million payday from crypto firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Investor, \u201cShark Tank\u201d judge and CNBC contributor Kevin O\u2019Leary said Thursday he\u2019s lost all of the $15 million FTX paid him to act as a spokesman for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/15\/how-sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-alameda-empire-vanished-overnight.html\">now-collapsed<\/a> crypto exchange that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2022\/the-nyt-sbf-interview-sharp-china-on-china-protests-and-the-path-to-re-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\">some have called fraudulent<\/a>. O\u2019Leary and other celebrities, such as Tom Brady and Larry David, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/ftx-crypto-investors-sue-founder-sam-bankman-fried-celebrity-promoters-rcna57453\" target=\"_blank\">were sued by FTX investors<\/a> who say the exchange\u2019s ambassadors should have done more due diligence and exercised a greater level of care before promoting the crypto empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/08\/ftx-spokesman-kevin-oleary-says-he-lost-15-million-crypto-payday.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Investor, \u201cShark Tank\u201d judge and CNBC contributor Kevin O\u2019Leary said Thursday he\u2019s lost all of the $15 million FTX paid him to act as a spokesman for the now-collapsed crypto exchange that some have called fraudulent. O\u2019Leary and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83346,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83345\/revisions\/83346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}