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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WAIT... Are you suggesting that is not her natural hair?
What a nasty demon that woman is.
They will put their head in the sand.
Poor Maxine. Shes soo fkg ugly.
That is hilarious! Great job!
Thank you for having nice manners and sparing us the eye bleach.
It’s an oldie but a goodie
Someday this witch will assume room temperature along with several other fools. I sure hope I live long enough to see it. It will be a series of very happy days for me. Others will replace them but at least there will be something different.
ol chocolate pudding face gets angry, funny
maxie probably took 10s of millions from ftx and congresscritters took 100s of millions in total
How do you know they’re not?
I do what I can
This particular RAT is married to a bank owner.
I don’t……you are the one that mentioned ethnicity. .
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I mentioned an observation that has an ethnic component. A distinction with a difference. It appears we are in some sort of elite-capture scenario with the Communist Chinese.
They appear to be hanging off of the elbow of everyone running anything of significance in our country.
The same cannot be said in their country.
See today’s example, and the story validates ethnicity, in this case:
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