Amid allegations that FTX used blended funds for political and "charitable" donations, a memo exchanged between SBF's brother Gabriel Bankman-Fried and an FTX Foundation official described a plan to buy the sovereign state of Nauru to build a "bunker/sanctuary" that would secure the majority of effective altruists if 50% to 99.99% of the world's population died, according to court documents. survived. At the same time, they also worked out "reasonable regulations on the genetic enhancement of humans and built a laboratory there". The memo also noted that "there may be other things that are also useful for a sovereign nation." Foresight News previously reported that in March 2022, former Alameda Research co-CEO Caroline Ellison estimated in a private note that FTX.com alone had a cash deficit of more than $10 billion.