Inside the high-stakes world of federal indictments and turning on your business partners.

Ajouté : 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Doesn't get more federal than being at the federal courthouse in the Southern District of New York. Yeah.

[00:00:06]>> like the big crypto guy.

[00:00:13]Was that wild being in a suit like walking into that building? Just like that's the halls of the power, you know?

[00:00:20]That court is beautiful, too. It's like so beautiful.

[00:00:22]>> Yeah.

[00:00:23]Um, how long how long before you decided to flip? Did you give it any thought?

[00:00:29]No. I was I would have flipped like I'm like not ashamed of flipping in that case at all. Like he had me over so many times over. Yeah. Um, Farkas I knew had like I was telling that guy he shouldn't even go to jail. Like he didn't even know he was too dumb to even know what was going on. Uh, I hated Sorbi. I was like, of course I'll cooperate. I was in rehab and I'm like, I'm getting sober.

[00:00:49]I'm like, yeah, whatever. I'm down. Like get me the meeting with them. Uh, the the original whatever proffer or whatever they they call it.

[00:00:56]>> Yeah.

[00:00:56]And um, then he's like, like I get out of rehab a couple months later. He's like, all right, yeah, come to New York.

[00:01:02]They want to meet with you. And where is Sorbi in jail the whole time or did he bond out? So he basically in the very beginning he had they had they were trying to get the the rest of the Ethereum that the company had and it was supposed to be during the SEC investigation given to the lawyer and given to somebody else to put in like two different lock boxes and then the FBI went to get it and there was the a fake password and they were like, all right, Sorbi, we know you have it. We're not letting you out of jail until you give us the real password.