FTX's lawyers and advisers cost $38 million for a month of work - and the bankrupt crypto exchange's new CEO charged $305,000 for February
Hundreds of lawyers, consultants, accountants and others working for FTX billed a total $38 million for the month of January alone, according to court records cited byMeanwhile, John Ray III, who took over as CEO in November and was previously responsible for helping clean up energy firm Enron, submitted a bill for $305,565 for the month of February, the report said.
Those three firms have over 180 lawyers and over 50 other staffers working on the FTX case, per the CoinDesk report.
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