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These lawmakers probing FTX’s collapse got donations from Sam Bankman-Fried and cronies
nypost.com ^

Posted on 12/15/2022 5:13:12 PM PST by BenLurkin

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY)

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA)

Rep. Jesús ‘Chuy’ García (D-IL)

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH)

Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA)

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY)

Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; corruption; ftx

1 posted on 12/15/2022 5:13:12 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I am certain these fine representatives will do a perfectly good job of investigating SBF and FTX, even though they personally received substantial financial benefits from him.


2 posted on 12/15/2022 5:18:38 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t forget Mad Maxine


3 posted on 12/15/2022 5:19:52 PM PST by Michael.SF. ( The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility)
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To: BenLurkin

He’s under a Federal criminal indictment. The congressional investigation has already been superseded.


4 posted on 12/15/2022 5:23:04 PM PST by babble-on
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To: BenLurkin

Instead of the usual suspects, it’s “The suspect usual investigators”


5 posted on 12/15/2022 5:24:05 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: BenLurkin

23 % Republican, so it is all the fault of the Republican Party.


6 posted on 12/15/2022 5:35:28 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: BenLurkin
GlS5U7k
7 posted on 12/15/2022 5:49:22 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: BenLurkin

Ill-gotten political donations going to be return?


8 posted on 12/15/2022 5:51:58 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: BenLurkin

It’s only Receiving Stolen Property not like it’s a Felony everywhere


9 posted on 12/15/2022 5:52:21 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Michael.SF.

10 posted on 12/15/2022 6:02:44 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Michael.SF.

“Don’t forget Mad Maxine”

Exactly. I do not see her name on the list, and she tried to shut it down.


11 posted on 12/15/2022 6:06:49 PM PST by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: BenLurkin

Must be a phony list; Maxine’s name is missing.


12 posted on 12/15/2022 6:09:38 PM PST by chopperk
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To: BenLurkin

And Emmer is going to be Majority Whip. Whoever made that decision needs to resign


13 posted on 12/15/2022 6:10:55 PM PST by qaz123
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To: BenLurkin

Com’on Man. There is not a single reason to even think those fair minded public servants would not be fair minded and above board in their ‘investigation’.

Not a single reason, but there are thousands, if not millions of reasons.


14 posted on 12/15/2022 6:16:21 PM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: babble-on

“He’s under a Federal criminal indictment. The congressional investigation has already been superseded.”

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I he could pick one or the other, I’m sure I know what his decision would be.

I wouldn’t trade places with Bankman-Fraud for all the whiskey in Kentucky.


15 posted on 12/15/2022 6:34:22 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: BenLurkin

there were a lot more Pubs who got money from FTX than those listed: SBF himself said their donations to Pubs was done through dark money groups so the donations would be hard to trace back to FTX because he didn’t want the blowback from leftists attacking him for GOP donations ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=ftx+dark+money+donations+republicans

https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-political-donations-democrats-republicans-dark-money/

it infuriates me that many Republicans are defending crypto and blockchain, whereas some of the biggest critics of crypto are democrats

https://www.google.com/search?q=crypto+congress+democrat+critics

https://www.google.com/search?q=congress+republicans+defend+crypto+


16 posted on 12/15/2022 7:11:27 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: babble-on

“The congressional investigation has already been superseded.”

Yep, consider it over. Janet Reno was a PROFESSIONAL at doing the same...and then Bush Jr. canceled them all as he was setting a ‘new tone’ (that only applied to him).


17 posted on 12/15/2022 7:30:15 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 14 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: catnipman

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/summary?id=D000073694

Plenty to both sides and public info. I don’t think he missed a PAC or Leadership Fund. He basically bought fedgov for $70 million.


18 posted on 12/16/2022 4:50:50 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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