Posted on 11/19/2022 1:18:37 PM PST by Kevin in California
Sam Bankman-Fried and executives at his cryptocurrency firm contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to members of the House committee that will hold hearings next month on the company’s collapse.
Bankman-Fried and his co-founders at FTX contributed $300,351 to nine members of the House Financial Services Committee, according to Federal Election Commission records. Some of the largest contributions were to Democrats on the committee’s Digital Assets Working Group, which worked on regulation of the crypto industry. Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), who chairs the committee, announced a probe this week into FTX’s collapse after the company declared bankruptcy, wiping out billions of dollars in customers’ portfolios. The Justice Department and Securities Exchange Commission are reportedly investigating Bankman-Fried for potential misuse of customer funds.
I'm certain Garland will get to the bottom of this just as soon as he's done harassing DJT.
I tell ya it pays to be a communist, as long as you give money and tons of it to fellow commies you can do whatever you want and I mean WHATEVER YOU WANT
Every penny in campaign funds received from Bankman- Freid should be returned to the people who got defrauded. If he had been a conservative, the media would be demanding it
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When asked about it, Waters just said “Republicans do it too”.
Since Obama, the US has become woefully corrupt with minimal law and order and a DOJ/FBI that act as enforcers for the Democrat Party.
The people who were defrauded should file a big class action lawsuit against these corrupt government BASTARDS!!!!
When asked about it, Waters just said “Republicans do it too”.
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Mad maxine is parroting the dem defense. “The repubs do it, too”
Truth is they’re all for sale
Bribed with Fried’s investors money, Fox ran a
video of Watters blowing kisses to mop head Fried.
Bribery - the mother’s milk of DC
Waters is in charge of the House Financial Services Committee? Isn’t hubby a banker? WTF??!!?
They should all go to prison for a very long time.
American Just-us.
That was just campaign contributions.
We do not mention the ‘bribe’ word here in Washington. Unless it is a member of the ‘other’ party.
I don’t care if “Republicans do it too.” The money needs to be returned, FFS! A million “nobodies” lost money on this Ponzi scheme, and I’d be super pissed if I was one of them. If FTX had donated solely to the GOP, this would be a front page story every day for weeks!
Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), who chairs the committee and democrats on the committee’s
Unlike a soda can deposit but no return of the money.
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And no mention of Ukraine’s corrupted involvement in FTX.
Waters can’t spell cryptocurrency. Grifter. The fact she is head of this committee speaks to the level of democrat corruption. There’s your ‘Threat to democracy’.
“ If he had been a conservative”…
He and his entire family would have already been buried alive and hermetically sealed in the septic tank under the prison
Good point.......let’s talk it up.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried opened a “bank” (a crypto exchange), accepted deposits of real money, helped himself to customers’ deposits without their knowledge, and then distributed mountains of cash to friends and, more importantly, Democratic coffers. Indeed, Bankman-Fried ranked as the Democratic Party’s second-biggest individual donor in the 2021–2022 election cycle, pumping an estimated $40 million into various Democratic campaigns and activist groups.
ACTION Among the evidence we seek
<><>all docs and communications among employees or agents of the DNC, and FTX donor list
<><>any and all references relating to the Biden Administration’s control, transfer, storage, or other handling of documents subject to FTX donations.
MUST INCLUDE ALL OF BIDENS MEMOS, NOTES, SNAIL MAIL, EMAIL, CALENDAR NOTES, OFFICIAL ORDERS WRT FTX DONATIONS.
All communications records between BIDENS office and RELEVANT PERSONS SUCH AS OBAMA, THE CLINTONS PELOSI, in connection with FTX.
The FOIA request should seek
all calendar entries,
phone messages,
text messages,
emails,
encrypted app chats,
letter correspondence
long-distance toll records
made from relevant dates.
Office of Information Policy (OIP)
U.S. Department of Justice
441 G St, NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20530
E-mail: National.FOIAPortal@usdoj.gov
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