FaZe Banks addresses offshore gambling accusations: \u201cI\u2019m as legit as it gets\u201d YouTube: FaZe BanksFaZe Clan co-owner Ricky \u2018Banks\u2019 Bengston has responded to accusations regarding offshore gambling being levied against him. Throughout 2021, there have been various allegations against YouTube personalities, accused of being involved in cryptocurrency schemes and other gambling activities. Earlier in October 2021, NELK Boys\u2019 SteveWillDoIt completely wiped his gambling channel after a video from notorious YouTube sleuth Coffeezilla suggested something shady was occurring. FaZe Clan have been embroiled in their own issues too, with members Kay, Jarvis, Nikan, and Teeqo all removed or suspended from the org for allegedly pumping and dumping a cryptocoin called Save the Kids. It\u2019s more recently been alleged by fans and critics online that Banks himself could be involved with Roobet and its owners, thanks mostly to his huge deal with the company that saw them fly Banks, Adin Ross and more out to Mexico and give them around $2m to promote the platform. The main issue is that Roobet is not available in the U.S. \u2014 hence why questions have been asked over their activity. Banks appeared on the BFFs podcast with Josh Richards and Barstool\u2019s Dave Portnoy to discuss the allegations. He said: \u201cWe did a 1-month stint campaign with them [Roobet], we were getting jets to Mexico, we did it completely 100% legit. I\u2019m as legit as it gets.\u201d Topic starts at 25:02 While Richards said that he had heard influencers were telling viewers to download a VPN so that they can access the site, Banks denied that any of that had happened. \u201cThat never happened, at least not from us,\u201d he said. He went on to say that \u201cwe got paid fat for it,\u201d but expressed some confusion over what exactly it was he and others were being accused of. \u201cThere were transactions with a [Ethereum] wallet super connected to Roobet, and it was like, \u2018Why\u2019s all this money coming in from this wallet to Banks, and then two seconds later he\u2019s buying CryptoPunks\u2019?\u201d He then explained exactly what happened between his ETH wallet and the other. \u201cWe all know how Coinbase works. It\u2019s annoying, it takes a while. I start sending messages out saying \u2018Yo, do you have X dollars in Ethereum that I could buy off you?\u2019 So one of these guys came back, he sends me the Ethereum, I did it all through my finance people. And I wired this guy out like $200,000.\u201d While Banks doesn\u2019t often speak out on his personal life and things that are going on behind the scenes, he\u2019s very confident that he\u2019s done nothing wrong in this situation and doesn\u2019t want to be tarnished with that brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe Banks addresses offshore gambling accusations: \u201cI\u2019m as legit as it gets\u201d YouTube: FaZe BanksFaZe Clan co-owner Ricky \u2018Banks\u2019 Bengston has responded to accusations regarding offshore gambling being levied against him. Throughout 2021, there have been various allegations against YouTube personalities, accused of being involved in cryptocurrency schemes and other gambling activities. Earlier in October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}