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Sam Bankman-Fried will be no match for government prosecutors who will poke holes in his defense when he takes the stand in his criminal trial, says SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci.<\/p>\n
In an Oct. 25 interview<\/a> on CNBC\u2019s \u201cLast Call,\u201d Scaramucci said the Department of Justice prosecutors will \u201cpoint out all the contradictions\u201d he believes Bankman-Fried has made which will \u201cadd years to his sentence.”<\/p>\n “He\u2019s gonna get skinned alive, there\u2019s no way to escape. He thinks he\u2019s going to out-fox the prosecutors but they\u2019re very, very well experienced with this stuff.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Scaramucci believed there\u2019s been a \u201cwhole revision of history\u201d on Bankman-Fried as around a year ago he was thought of as a \u201ccongenial nerd who was going to give all his money away\u201d but the testimony of former FTX executives showed “there was malevolence.”<\/p>\n \u201cHe thought he was going to take that money and he was so smart that he would out-trade the market and put the money back and end up as a half-a-trillionaire but it never works like that,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n Related: Will Sam Bankman-Fried fix his case when he takes the stand?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In September 2022 FTX Ventures acquired a 30% stake<\/a> in SkyBridge which Scaramucci is trying to buyback<\/a> from the now-bankrupt firm.<\/p>\n