FTX lobbyist tried using to acquire Pacific island of Nauru to make a new superspecies, lawsuit claims

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Gabe Bankman-Fried, the young brother of FTX’s founder, tried out to acquire the island country of Nauru, a Delaware lawsuit alleges.
The allegation was in a fit submitted by attorneys from Sullivan & Cromwell, which is in search of to recover billions of pounds from Sam Bankman-Fried just after the collapse of FTX.
Nauru, with a inhabitants of about 12,000, is a minimal more than 2,100 miles absent from Brisbane, Australia.

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