Posted on 11/15/2022 6:58:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of cryptocurrency exchange company FTX, funneled millions of dollars to Democratic campaigns, becoming one the party's largest donors, second only to George Soros.
Bankman-Fried donated nearly $127 million during the midterm cycle, according to Federal Election Commission data. His company also reportedly set up a website, Aid for Ukraine, to raise funds for Ukrainians amid the ongoing war against Russia. The initiative was powered by the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, FTX and Ukrainian-web company Everstake.
Cryptocurrency donations were sent to the National Bank of Ukraine. The 30-year-old crypto financier wrote on Twitter in early March he was "excited and humbled to be working with the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance and others to support crypto donations to Ukraine."
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine questioned Monday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" why a country at war was "dabbling with cryptocurrency."
"Why on earth the American taxpayer is funneling tens of billions of dollars over to Ukraine so that they can fight Russia, and why on earth they would be involved, the Ukrainian government, with this now collapsed cryptocurrency exchange we need to know," she told guest host Tulsi Gabbard.
"Why on earth was a country at war dabbling with cryptocurrency which everybody knows is shady?" Devine asked.
Devine added Bankman-Fried was in the "bosom of the left" and "indulging in all sorts of woke causes."
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Fwiw, Gensler also served as the CFO for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. He currently is the Chair of the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Nice cozy connections here.
MONEY!.......................
Even the article refutes this post.
There were no investments of Ukraine money in cryptocurrency.
FTX just set a website and processed crypto donations by private donors to Ukraine (Mostly in March!) and converted them to normal money. Probably not too much of money anyway.
Since they were one of the world largest crypto processors, why not. Somebody had to do it! Nobody knew they will collapse!
Bankman-Fried is leftist and likely criminal, but he could do legit business too.
The donations made it to Ukraine, which really needs the money! Obviously!
I just do not see anything illegal, unethical, corrupted or even wasteful here!
All I see in this post are accusation by association, no crime in my book.
Bankman-Fried is leftist and likely criminal, but he could do legit business too.
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Interesting statement. That’s called a “front” or “cover”.
“accusations by association”
That’s 99.99% of all Russkie style conspiracy mongering and propaganda.
Allegedly Bad person + ????? + Ukraine = proof of reptoid aliens.
And it gets repeated by an echo chamber and accepted as fact, even while these same clowns will look an a news article, quoting witnesses on the ground, with CCTV footage of an execution, and will say “fake news!”
Sam Bankman-Fried admits that FTX is a crypto laundromat for the Ukrainian government.
https://twitter.com/BobBish40288847/status/1591835076505264129
Not one single Democrat will go to jail over this. And at the end of the day we will see a number of Republicans involved too.
Only thing I know about FTX is I didn’t invest in it.
He had to spill the beans to save his life.
Hope he has a switch.
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