Brian Barrett

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2,845 appearances 28 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Brian Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Meta's AI Workers Are Revolting; Peter Thiel's Secret Society; Will Trump Free SBF? · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

At the same time, he was running a hedge fund called Alameda Research.

And what he did was he took billions of dollars of funds that people put into FTX and he moved them over into Alameda Research without telling anybody.

And you're not allowed to do that.

And he used that money in ways that were not what people who were invested in FTX intended them to be used.

Anyway, he got a 25-year jail sentence, convicted on multiple counts of various things.

Zoe, why are we thinking about him now?

This is on top of, by the way, the thousands of people tied to Jan 6th that he had already pardoned.

Anyway, go ahead.

Lots of pardons.

I want to be clear.

He's actively campaigning.

He gave an interview from prison to Fox Business News hinting as much.

And I'm sure the prison phone probably doesn't do it any favors.

So he has officially filed for a pardon to the Justice Department's pardon attorney office.

But the Trump administration, not receptive so far, which I know you said you weren't surprised by that, Zoe.

I'm a little surprised.

I don't remember the name.

I do remember the crime.

So Charlie was convicted after defrauding JPMorgan Chase because she sold her student aid startup, Frank, to the bank for $175 million by lying about how many customers it actually had to a pretty extreme degree.

I don't have it in front of me, but it was one of those things where it was like, oh, you could have done a little lie, but you did a big lie.

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