According to Coindesk, Former FTX Head of Marketing Nathaniel Whittemore said that SBF promised FTX didn't touch customer funds. "And it was a lie," Whittemore said. He said that he and the majority of the exchange’s other employees had no idea about the allegedly fraudulent treatment of customer funds. Whittemore said that employees were kept in the dark, and that many of them – especially FTX’s non-U.S. staff – used the exchange like a bank, and did not know that their savings had already allegedly been squandered. “You have to understand just how devastated the average FTX employee was” after Binance’s bailout of FTX fell through, Whittemore said. “Not only, then, did it seem that they might be out of a job, but they were also potentially facing the total loss of their savings.”