Posted on 12/30/2022 6:37:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Democratic donor met with senior Biden advisor Steve Ricchetti on September 8
He had at least three other meetings with staffers, report Thursday stated
Bankman-Fried's brother Gabriel also had White House talks on May 13
Further evidence of his deep ties with Washington and the Democratic party
White House has refused to say if Biden will give back donations from him
Disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried met with four Biden officials this year before the collapse of his FTX empire and his arrest in the Bahamas.
The Democratic donor, 30, awaiting trial for what prosecutors say is one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history held talks with senior White House advisor Steve Ricchetti on September 8, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
He has had at least two other meetings with Ricchetti on April 22 and May 12 and another with top aide Bruce Reed.
Bankman-Fried's brother Gabriel also participated in a meeting on his own on May 13.
The latest report is further evidence of the deep ties Bankman-Fried had with Washington before he was charged with swindling investors out of at least $1.8 billion.
The White House has refused to say whether Biden will give back some of the $5.2 million in donations from the fallen FTX founder gave to his campaign and connected groups in 2020.
Bankman-Fried is now under house arrest at his parents' $4million home in Palo Alto, California, after he was freed in a Manhattan court on a $250 million bond. The former CEO, 30, is facing securities and wire fraud charges related to his collapsed crypto exchange FTX.
Bloomberg reported that the meetings focused on the crypto industry and exchanges, and did not involve politics.
Bankman-Fried was the Democratic party's second biggest donor in the 2022 election cycle ...
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I’m sure this will be the top story on the evening news.....NOT!
Arrested the wrong end of those White House business dealings.
I’m wondering if all the money from movie & book deals he’s making, are going to go to the people he ripped off
We usually watch the ABC Evening news.
They don’t report a lot of stuff.
Nothing about TWITTER.
Nothing about FTX.
Nothing about Hunter and the laptop from hell.
The other news networks are doing the same.
THAT IS WHY NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT THESE THINGS.....................
It’s becoming very clear that FTX was laundering money for the current regime.
Now tell me the fix ain’t in.
It’s not so much the lies they tell. It’s the truths they don’t tell.
As Chris Plante says, “The most powerful weapon the Media has its the Power to Ignore.”..............
The U.S. media will search until they find a Republican who met with him, and THAT will be the narrative.
I wonder if he’ll live to see the trial?...................
The media sprays teflon on all potential Dem scandals.
It would be a bombshell if anyone does anything about SBF and that criminal squatting in the WH.
I thought that criminals could not profit from their crime/s (like films or books, etc.)
The news could have reported on the weight loss program at the Whitehut. He went in looking like he weighed 100 lbs more than when he left. Miraculous.
“I’m sure this will be the top story on the evening news.....NOT!”
Nothing to see here. Will the GOP investigate? Well, of course not.
Just dropping off the 10%
He hasn’t been found guilty of anything yet
Because the GOP are in on it too.
The fact Epps is being trotted out, on national state-run news, as a “victim” shows how controlled he is.
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