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 ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried likely to enter plea deal: report"Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea deal next week to fraud charges connected to the collapse of the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange he founded, FTX.com.
Bankman-Fried is expected to appear back in the Manhattan federal court on Jan. 3, 2023. He will face U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan."
This story will disappear faster than the hangman’s knot.
"On-chain data showed that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange, sent around 570 Ether worth US$684,000 to a Seychelles-based exchange and Ren Protocol’s Bitcoin bridge on Wednesday [Dec. 28], suggesting that he attempted to cash out the funds."
Oh lookie here...
"Late on 11 November, over $473 million in funds were siphoned from FTX through what Ryne Miller, FTX US's general counsel, characterized as "unauthorized transactions". Miller announced that FTX and FTX US intended to move remaining funds denominated in cryptocurrency to offline "cold storage" for security. The funds taken from FTX were mostly stablecoins such as Tether, and were quickly exchanged for Ether, a method used by cryptocurrency thieves to thwart attempts to retrieve stolen funds." - wikipedia
The bankruptcy, judge WILL CLAW BACK THOSE DONATIONS—COUNT ON IT.
IF Politicians say-—$$$ HAS BEEN SPENT-—They have to pay back the amount of the donation somehow.
Arrested ONLY HALF-—More coming????
THERE ARE NO VISITOR LOGS AT DELAWARE-—NEVER WERE.
Yes, stolen money is not expungable.
I bet there are panicked Dems and some RINOS of the Hill............
so this is where they decided where to put the the last payments of stolen windfall from the collapse of the democrat bit coin money laundering system, right?
10 percent to the big guy, check
8 percent to the big guy’s son’s publisher and art rep, check
7 percent to pelousi, check
7 percent to mitch “fang fang” mcConnell, check
6 percent to chuckie shoemer, check
The balance to both the rnc and dnc... to distribute to any anti-maga, anti-trump oppostion candidates, check
oh yes and a 3 percent bonus to Fleecya Murkowski for getting reductive choice voting in Alaska introduced, check..
Worried friends.
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Good one! 😆
Did he buy any of Hunter’s “art”>
Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide serving as a Counselor to the President under President Joe Biden. He was the chairman of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Ricchetti previously served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration...
Secret Service claims it has ‘no records’ of who visits Biden in Delaware
Nypost.com ^ | April 20, 2022 | Steven Nelson
The US Secret Service has dubiously claimed to The Post that it has “no records” of visitors to Biden’s two Delaware residences and therefore cannot divulge that information in response to a FOIA request.
Biden was at his residences in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach on about one-quarter of all days during his first year in office, but little is known about who stopped by for official meetings or less formal lobbying efforts — such as by members of his family and their associates. The Post sought more than one year of visitor log records, including for Biden’s first year in office. Snip
Dirty money, dirty politics, Joe and Hunter Biden:
REQUEST ALL OF BIDENS MEMOS, NOTES, SNAIL MAIL, EMAIL, CALENDAR NOTES, OFFICIAL ORDERS WRT HUNTER’S ACTIVITIES, ETC.
REQUEST communications records between BIDENS office and RELEVANT PERSONS SUCH AS OBAMA, THE CLINTONS, PELOSI, in connection with HUNTERS ACTIVITIES.
The 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
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