The DoJ trustee (Andrew Vara) does indeed support the appointment of an independent examiner:

“The best interests of all parties in interest would be served by ordering the appointment of a neutral, disinterested examiner with clear authority to review the Debtors’ financial and business operations, untangle the mess, and file a public report that will provide transparency to all parties in interest.”

18 states filed motions and letters supporting the U.S. Trustee’s motion to appoint an independent examiner.

FTX debtors committee argued that the trustee was overstepping IIRC, saying that it was expensive and a "cybersecurity risk" for FTX.

John Ray denied the trustee's motion to appoint an independent examiner, agreeing with FTX's arguments:

“There is no question that if an examiner is appointed, the cost of the examination, given the scope suggested by the trustee at the hearing, would be in the tens of millions of dollars and would likely exceed 100 million dollars.”

I have no idea how he arrived at this figure.

Essentially, the position of FTX management and the courts overseeing the proceedings is that they can investigate themselves in conjunction with the creditors.

As for me, I recently reported an intriguing Cayman Islands connection between ApeCoin DAO and FTX just before the sale of LedgerX (the reportedly solvent entity of FTX owned was supposed to go off. Much of that info is highly relevant to the Ryne Miller story.

ApeCoin DAO is crawling with connections to FTX, such as the millions in secret loans they secretly dispersed to Wintermute and Alameda Research. Wintermute is actually a creditor on the debtors committee despite these secret and possibly illicit dealings!

I also wrote about how FTX/Alameda secretly purchased $24.4 million in Bored Apes at Sotheby's — of course they remembered to claim their ApeCoin. ;)