FTXs leadership is looking to claw back more than $240 million from insiders and executives that benefited from FTX’s wildly inflated acquisition of stock-clearing platform Embed in September. According to court filings, Embeds own chief technology officer, Laurence Beal, was stunned that FTX paid so much for the company after one short meeting with its then-CEO, Michael Giles. Beal described FTXs due diligence process with a cowboy emoji. Lawyers accused FTX insiders of disproportionate payouts to Embed shareholders, including $55 million paid to its CEO.