Posted on 12/13/2022 4:44:51 PM PST by DFG
Despite Sam Bankman-Fried being a no-show — he’s busy fighting extradition to the United States after being criminally charged with fraud — there still were some fireworks at today’s FTX hearing in front of the House Financial Services Committee. You’re pretty much guaranteed a fun sound bite — or whacky video clip — when Maxine Waters, outgoing chair of the committee, is involved and today was no different.
Current FTX CEO, John Ray, who’s trying to clean up the mess left behind by SBF, did appear before the committee today and testified that “FTX commingled customer funds with the FTX Foundation and affiliated nonprofits to advance SBF’s vanity projects and progressive causes.” Ray also told the committee that there were “absolutely no internal controls whatsoever” when it came to recordkeeping, noting:
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The fun really started when Waters tried to abruptly end the hearing without all of the committee members having had the chance to ask questions. When Waters began her closing remarks and thanked Ray for his testimony, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) repeatedly tried to get her attention and request his turn to question the witness. Waters, after having an aide whisper in her ear, continued on with her closing remarks and ignored Gooden, resulting in Gooden having to raise his voice again and request a “parliamentary inquiry.” A clearly disgruntled Waters, with a face like thunder, snarled in Gooden’s general direction and reluctantly, yet flippantly — some might even say begrudgingly — allowed him his five minutes of questioning.
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Peach fo fi!
Same with the people plotting to attack the investigators of Hunter Biden’s laptop. There must be some really bad stuff for them to be fighting the investigation with every fiber of their beings. If there’s nothing on there as they try to pretend, then they wouldn’t be going nuts for the facts not to be uncovered.
The lack of maturity of these old hags in Congress is astounding. She acted like an 8 year old. Wonder what questions the congressman asked that she didn’t want asked?
Look at her constituents.
Waters is the worst.
“ Oh my...she could really give Helen Thomas a run for the money in the looks category.”
Waters is a distant second to rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut. DeLauro is an elite finalist for the title of ugliest white woman in history.
Google her, I’m too well raised to post a picture.
From what I understand, she was jonesing for a hit of crack, so that is why she tried to cut short the committee meeting/
I would like to ask this old drab 2 questions on the record.
1. Back in the day when you were working the street, how much did you get for a trick?
2. Was business ever good enough for you to afford a shower and shave on a regular basis?
To me Maxine Waters has always struck me as the exceptionally corrupt empty pant suit dimbulb “yes” woman where the demonrat party knows her constituents will always reelect her, who they keep in line by giving her shiny baubles and pretend she is of consequence when she merely follows the party line in return for such baubles
Leftys in bulletproof districts age into committee heads based on seniority.
Give AOC another couple decades....
No need to insult Mrs. Jefferson!
Mad Max the Rat wears a wig??? /s
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Naggers
You see the Chinese woman lean in to advise Maxine before she loses her cool?
McConnell, Feinstein, Swalwell, Waters, ad nauseam. They all appear to have Chinese handlers, do they not?
How do you know they are Chinese ?
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Since the collapse of FTX, the White House has referred questions about what Biden wants to do with his contributions to the Democratic National Committee, which has not responded to The Post’s inquiries.
In the 2020 election, Bankman-Fried spent $10 million backing Biden’s campaign (https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/sam-bankman-fried-broke-crypto-bank-for-dems/)
— much of that indirectly.
I wonder how McConnell and McCarthy will handle the situation.
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