Per CoinDesk: Sam Bankman-Fried spoke with Tiffany Fong in newly released audio.
In it he said:
“You don’t get into a situation like I got in if you make all the right decisions."
“You have to promise that you never, ever, ever say you f**ked up again,” Bankman-Fried said his lawyers told him. “I told them to go f**k themselves.”
“I gave [the Bahamian government] a one-day heads up that we were going to do it. They didn't say, yes or no. They didn't respond, and then we did it. The reason I did it was it was critical to the exchange being able to have a future."
“I certainly didn't build the back door in there and I don't know exactly what they're referring to.”
Bankman-Fried said that he couldn’t have built a back door because “I don’t even know how to code."