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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Made Secret Donations to Republicans
Gizmodo ^ | 11/30/22 | Matt Novak

Posted on 11/30/2022 7:18:36 AM PST by Callahan

In a newly published phone call SBF claims, "reporters freak the f—- out if you donate to a Republican because they’re all super liberal."

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, says he donated equally to both Democratic and Republican politicians before his cryptocurrency platform filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, wiping out billions of dollars in customer deposits. And that fact is going to come as a real shock to right-wing political operatives on Fox News who’ve tried to claim Democrats were the only ones beholden to FTX cash.

“I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to both parties,” Bankman-Fried said, according to a November 16 phone call published to YouTube by crypto commentator Tiffany Fong on Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; campaign; crypto; cryptocurrency; ftx; sambankmanfried; scandal
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1 posted on 11/30/2022 7:18:36 AM PST by Callahan
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To: Callahan

Well, ones like Romney and Murkowski are super liberal.


2 posted on 11/30/2022 7:20:06 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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I, for one, am totally shocked


3 posted on 11/30/2022 7:20:14 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Callahan

I bet he really means the Uniparty. The Democrats and the Republicans who go along with the Democrats.


4 posted on 11/30/2022 7:20:58 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Callahan

Let’s see the receipts, because he is the last human on earth to believe anything out of his mouth.


5 posted on 11/30/2022 7:22:19 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Callahan

I suspect a future Epsteining for this d-bag.


6 posted on 11/30/2022 7:22:20 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Callahan

He also gave money to the RATS up in the Lost City of Portland, Oregon. So what’s the point?


7 posted on 11/30/2022 7:22:46 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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To: Rurudyne

Yep.


8 posted on 11/30/2022 7:25:28 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: OttawaFreeper

These few he made openly, but the vast majority he gave secretly. Opensecrets supposedly shows he was #1 donor for the Democrats and #3 donor for the Republicans.


9 posted on 11/30/2022 7:27:58 AM PST by Krosan
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To: Callahan

If they were ‘secret donations’, then people are going to jail (and Garland will prosecute Republicans, any Republican).


10 posted on 11/30/2022 7:28:18 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 24 degrees)
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To: Callahan

Uni-party strikes again.


11 posted on 11/30/2022 7:28:23 AM PST by spincaster
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To: Callahan

The numbers that have been extensively reported show the Democrats received far more money from SBF/FTX than GOP.

SBF can talk all he wants, but the numbers are against him.


12 posted on 11/30/2022 7:30:44 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: EEGator

Crypto is a fraudulent money laundering scam…. All of it..

Cleanup crews are working overtime..

https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/29/crypto-billionaire-russia-helicopter-crash-dead/


13 posted on 11/30/2022 7:30:48 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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Spreading the bribe money around the old fashioned way.

But whose money was he laundering?

14 posted on 11/30/2022 7:31:32 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Callahan

Of course he did, money crooks cover all the bases.


15 posted on 11/30/2022 7:31:59 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

“””Let’s see the receipts, because he is the last human on earth to believe anything out of his mouth.”””


I agree. Until SBF shows us the documents, he is lying.


16 posted on 11/30/2022 7:33:04 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Titus-Maximus

You will know the truth if this guy walks and is not charged with fraud and put in jail.

If he corrupted people in both parties, no one will want to investigate what happened because they don’t want to expose themselves.


17 posted on 11/30/2022 7:33:33 AM PST by srmanuel (I)
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To: HamiltonJay

There’s a lot of real and crazy things occurring recently.


18 posted on 11/30/2022 7:34:14 AM PST by EEGator
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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


19 posted on 11/30/2022 7:36:29 AM PST by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God))
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To: Titus-Maximus

Probably gave $50 to Republicans and $500,000,000,000 to democrats.


20 posted on 11/30/2022 7:38:59 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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