I mean that he would have known it creates fud and how it plays out after that as there was fud happening already, even from Bitboy from all the people .

Maybe i am overestimating how smart CZ is but surely he knows that one wrong tweet from him can destroy a token?
And when he mentions selling his ftt bag and that he learned from luna at same sentence. If that wouldn't do it, nothing would.

What it comes to Commodity Futures Trading Commission, they are mostly interested on authorization of FTX US Derivatives after their liquidity problems, not legality of this takeover.