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- FBI Director Kash Patel revealed months later that he had purchased a large amount of Strategy shares last November.
- Strategic shares have since fallen about 44%, leaving Patel’s investments underwater if he still holds them.
- Patel said the purchase was “inadvertently omitted” from required financial disclosures.
FBI Director Kash Patel has seen his share of… strategy collapsed since it made a previously undisclosed large investment in Bitcoin Treasury Company last November.
Patel bought between $100,000 and $250,000 of stock in the company founded by Michael Saylor on Nov. 21, according to new government filings. MSTR was trading around $181 at the time. The stock has since collapsed more than 44% to $100.55 at writing.
The FBI director did not initially disclose his investment in the strategy. he Modified A disclosure form required in late May to include strategy purchases, which he claimed was “inadvertently omitted,” according to filings obtained by known.
The stock purchase should have been noted in the financial disclosure Patel signed in early December. Under federal law, certain government employees, including the FBI director, must report securities transactions of more than $1,000 within 45 days.
In the intervening months, assuming he didn’t sell the position, Patel’s investment in the strategy lost him between $44,000 and $110,000.
The company, the most prominent cryptocurrency treasury firm on Wall Street, has stored more than 847,000 bitcoins, an amount worth more than $52 billion at current prices. The strategy’s cryptocurrency storage model, while hugely successful when Bitcoin’s price rises, has sapped its value amid the months-long downturn in the cryptocurrency market.
In the past year, the price of Bitcoin has fallen more than 41%, from north of $106,000 to $61,933 at writing. In the same period, the price of the strategy also fell, but more sharply.
The Bitcoin treasury company’s stock rose to more than $442 last summer, fueled by the rising price of Bitcoin and the hype surrounding the token. It has since collapsed by more than 77%.
Earlier this week, analysts said reduced The strategy’s price target fell from $400 to $260, mainly due to Bitcoin’s “persistent notable weakness.”
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