"INDICT TRUMP AGAIN!"
Posted on 08/15/2023 7:25:00 AM PDT by Twotone
On Monday, prosecutors charged disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried with seven counts of fraud and money laundering, alleging he had stolen over $100 million in customer funds to make contributions to political campaigns.
Bankman-Fried was originally indicted for conspiracy to make unlawful campaign contributions in 2022, however, prosecutors dropped that charge in order to ensure the Bahamas allowed for his extradition back to the United States. The superseding indictment stays true to that agreement, and does not include that charge.
According to Reuters, the US Attorney's Office in Manhattan filed a superseding indictment on Monday evening, accusing him of directing other FTX executives to make donations in order to evade contribution limits to push for crypto-friendly regulations.
"He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow," the indictment read.
"The defendant's use of customer deposits to conduct a political influence campaign was part of the wire fraud scheme charged in the original indictment," it continued. "And as part of the originally charged money laundering scheme, the defendant also concealed the source of his fraudulent proceeds through political straw donations."
Before FTX's collapse, Bankman-Fried had donated $39.8 million to Democratic political campaigns, making him the party's second-largest donor behind George Soros.
Bankman-Fried had been under house arrest at his parents' home, however, he was recently ordered to go to jail in New York City for violating bail conditions.
His trial is set for October.
BTTT
And there was NO cheating in the 2020, 2022 elections. /s
50 lashes with a feather boa!.................
Ah, thank you, that makes more sense why the election fraud charges were dropped.
Sounds nice but Manhattan?
Why am I so cynical to think that this is another protection indictment designed to end up giving immunity and/or double jeapardy protection just like Hunter was supposed to get?
The only difference is that Hunter used Ukrainian and Chinese and russian illegal "donations" to influence government thru dear old dad.
I did not hear sbmfr had been ordered in! Schadenfreude!
May he be used as human currency for the next 30 years by the men of cell block C for cigarette and candy bar purchases for stealing millions to fund the marxist democRATs that are destroying our nation.
Got sent to Brooklyn and aint coming out. Wow he gonna do actual time now.
SBF didnt kill himself.
A jury of 12 Democrats will acquit him of all charges without even looking at the mountain of evidence against him.
Of course the recipients of stolen funds are clamoring to give them back to rightful owners. /s
SBF is a goner, he just doesn’t realize it yet. He’ll be “Epsteined” before he knows it.
A Democrat is always a Democrat first.
Remember that about your Democrat friends, coworkers, neighbors and relatives.
silly wabbit!
that is different!
First huge red flag to customers he donated to democrat campaigns.
Crime Inc. member
Kinda what I was thinking. If they have proof that he donated $X to Y person. (Which they would HAVE to have to have a case, right?) Then they know who to get the money BACK from so that they can give it back to the people who got conned. RIGHT?
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