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- Sam Bankman-Fried and Anthony Scaramucci went on a Middle East fundraising tour in October.
- Scaramucci told Insider he bought SBF a suit so the FTX CEO wouldn't wear a T-shirt with investors.
- He said SBF ended up saying "nasty things" about a crypto rival that helped spark FTX's downfall.
Weeks before FTX's downfall, Anthony Scaramucci was worried that Sam Bankman-Fried's famously casual dress sense could backfire on a fundraising trip to the Middle East. Scaramucci told Insider he bought the then-FTX CEO a suit from Bloomingdale's to help impress investors.