Sassoon, unphased, moved right ahead with her questioning. She pulled up an interview between Bankman-Fried and Bloomberg’s Faux. The article was dated December 2022, a few weeks after FTX fell apart: “When I ask if Alameda had to follow the same margin rules as other traders, he admits the fund did not,” Faux wrote. “‘There was more leeway,’ Bankman-Fried says.”