Posted on 12/31/2023 12:57:17 AM PST by Libloather
Critics are accusing the DOJ of sweeping additional charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried under the rug, after prosecutors said he would not face a second trial for campaign finance violations following his conviction last month.
In a letter filed on Friday night in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said the 'strong public interest' in a prompt resolution of the case outweighed the benefits of a second trial.
In his letter to the court, US Attorney Damian Williams noted that prosecutors introduced evidence about all of the dropped charges during Bankman-Fried's monthlong first trial, where he was found guilty on all counts.
The additional, now dropped, charges included campaign finance violations and bribing foreign officials, which have yet to be approved by officials in the Bahamas, per the agreement that led to his extradition.
Some Republicans cried foul, noting that Bankman-Fried was a major donor to Democrats, including a reported $5.2 million infusion into President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign.
'So we won't know which politicians he bribed or who's campaigns he influenced? That collective sigh of relief you are hearing is from the DEEP STATE,' tweeted Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican.
The move also drew criticism from within the cryptocurrency industry, including Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer of crypto exchange Coinbase.
'I think this is a miscarriage of justice. The public interest in a public airing of charges almost always matters. Campaign finance charges are at the very top of this list,' Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, wrote on X.
'What politicians and others knew what and when are critical questions that deserve answers,' he added. 'Dropping this on a Friday night before a holiday only fuels public cynics about the politics of all this.'
Last month, jurors convicted Bankman-Fried, 31, on all seven fraud and conspiracy...
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BTTT
No one will ever be held accountable just like they NEVER are.
Hmmm ... Stanford University.
Also home the Sam Bankman-Fried and his parents, plus thousands of other lefties.
6 posted on 11/6/2023, 10:14:19 PM by texas
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Stanford has also been ground zero for the Biden Admin censorship project.
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“Republicans slam DOJ for dropping campaign finance charges against major Democratic donor Sam Bankman-Fried”
Perhaps if Republicans weren’t DRIVING TRUMP OUT OF OFFICE in 2020, there would be an Attorney General willing to prosecute Democrats.
Exactly.
Garland’s concern is that the Democrat politicians whon would be exposed who took Bankman’s money, his boss Biden among them, would have to be clawed back to go into the pool that compensates the investors he stole the money from. Their media allies don’t want to have to report this and the Democrats don’t want to have to repay it. Dirtbag Garland got the message loud and clear
Shameless bastards!
Yeah, we do something like that and there would be F-15s flying over (Biden).
Weren’t they the money laundering operation for the Democrats for Ukrainian kickbacks of US aid?
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!
EVERY DAMN DEMOCRAT GOT MONEY!
These bribe-taking politicians surely know that they are destroying the United States and making it into a banana regime that is going to affect their kids and grandkids?
Well good ... and give him immunity to those charges too. He’s going to jail for a long time anyway (well, at least until he is epsteined)
Then, when the adults are in charge and a real investigation is done, if he is still alive, he won’t be able to claim the fifth when compelled to testify as to who got the money.
“FTX sues SBF’s parents, alleges they funneled millions to Stanford, other ‘pet causes’
SF Gate ^ | 9/19/2023 | By Alex Shultz
Posted on 9/19/2023, 4:04:10 PM by NohSpinZone
Longtime Stanford University professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried — the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried — were sued by the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company FTX on Monday. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Delaware, the couple is accused of using FTX funds to enrich themselves and give to their “pet causes,” including millions of dollars in donations to Stanford.
The lawsuit alleges that both Bankman and Fried “fraudulently transferred and misappropriated” tens of millions of dollars in total from FTX. They were also given a 30,000-square-foot $16.4 million home in the Bahamas and a $10 million cash gift by their son Bankman-Fried, according to the lawsuit....”
I wonder if a lot of that money went into the Stanford censorship projects targeting conservatives?
Well, he is in federal prison, sentencing is coming up, they used all the evidence for those trials and these charges I think were required by the Bahamas and they decided not to proceed ,, I think his parents were behind the whole scheme so I’d like to see that investigation , this guy was a tool, and this kind of news seems designed to draw out some emotional black pillers. Don’t bet against America , many a wise man has said.
Defund, dismantle, do not replace.
Taking turns, players select a name, and choose from 4 options: 1)Neither list, 2)Friedman-Baker bribee, 3)Epstein Island visitor, or 4) both lists.
Player with the most correct answers wins.
The RATS have this down to a science whether it’s classified leaks, doxxing, or illegal campaign contributions. They find people willing to take a very public beating for doing their dirty work like releasing someone’s tax returns or funneling millions of dollars in black money to candidates. Most important, those services get rendered which embarrasses or does worse to a Republican and gets crucial and illegal money to RAT candidates. Then after the public part which may even include a trial and in which everyone on both sides of the aisle piles on, the RATS make the charges and publicity go away, and then finally pay off the person with a job or book deal through which they make good on the services rendered for them. Anyone who doesn’t know that SBF was just the latest in this string of service providers and that there are multiple working on various RAT projects for 2024 is not very clever.
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