FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has commented for the first time since being sentenced to 25 years in prison last week, saying he "of course" feels remorse. "I am haunted every day by what I have lost," he said in an email to ABC News from the Brooklyn City Detention Center. People's money, I'm the CEO of FTX, I'm responsible for everything that happens in the company, and when you're responsible, the why doesn't matter anymore. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to repair even a portion of the damage. I'm in jail I tried my best but couldn't do more, which was very frustrating to me."

He reiterated his statement that he "never thought that what I was doing was illegal," adding: "But I try to hold myself to a high standard and obviously I didn't live up to that standard." "I hear it and I see it. "To the despair, frustration and sense of betrayal felt by thousands of customers; they deserve full compensation at current prices," he said, adding that he "felt the pain" of his colleagues who had "ruined something they had devoted their lives to." .