Posted on 10/18/2023 11:48:14 AM PDT by Libloather
Sam Bankman-Fried scheduled a number of high-profile meetings with political power-players a short time before his cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed.
The former billionaire, 31, was set to sit down with former President Bill Clinton, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Yasir Al Rumayyan, the head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, shortly before his crypto empire came crashing down in November 2022.
Evidence of the meetings was presented by prosecutors on Tuesday at Bankman-Fried's fraud trial in Manhattan.
The former crypto whiz faces up to 115 years in prison for allegedly siphoning FTX client funds to prop up his hedge fund Alameda Research, while funding his lavish lifestyle and political donations.
Bankman-Fried's calendar at the height of his influence became a central focus of proceedings on Tuesday, namely when government attorneys questioned FBI agent Richard Busick.
Busick had carried out analysis on an AT&T phone allegedly used by Bankman-Fried, and he testified to a number of eyebrow-raising meetings and calendar entries on his schedule.
The agent claimed that the scheduled meetings corresponded with the phone's location at those times, but Bankman-Fried's lawyers questioned the accuracy of the location data during cross-examination.
According to the calendar invites seen in court, one of Bankman-Fried's meetings was with Clinton at the New York Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in September 2022, roughly two months before FTX collapsed.
That same month, calendar invites showed he had a meeting set up with Al Rumayyan, at The Pierre hotel in New York.
Bankman-Fried, who gave tens of millions to political causes when he commanded his cryptocurrency empire, mostly to Democrats, also had meetings set up with New York bigwigs.
The month before he met with Clinton, he set up a meeting with Hochul, and also scheduled a dinner with New York City Mayor Eric Adams...
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oh , yea, SHAKEDOWN!
He has a brother named Gabriel.
His mother funnelled $$$$’s into a supetpac called Mind the Gap.
Gabriel was a facilitator in
DC for Repubs & Dems alike
and SBF freely admits donating
$$$’s to both of them respectively.
SBF also has a aunt who is a Columbia Univ Dean of something or other.
SBF also wanted to buy
off Pres Trump to not run to
the tune of 1bil? , something like that. After I read this and much more i came away with the following impression(s). Imho the idolatrous political zeal the mother found in creating this political group that it had opened a door to the rich & famous lifestyle she & her desired- life on another level other as academics.You know, life as movers & shakers with lotsa’, lotsa,’ munee, pal- ling sround with big names, photo ops, the party circuit like The Hamptons, cocktails st so & so’s...
These 3 musta’ had a lot of “dreams” and i believed they worked together and the father being the chief architect.
LOSERS!!!😆😆😆😆
Quite a family!
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