Sam Bankman-Fried, who has since been charged with a number of federal charges in the wake of the disastrous collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, had a number of meetings in secret with members of the Biden White House before to the 2022 midterm elections.
In the course of the Biden administration’s election campaign, billionaire venture capitalist Bankman-Fried had four progressive talks, which may be a hint that his big monetary donation may lead to significant reform or policy change.
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“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,” the Bloomberg story was acknowledged, according to the UK’s Daily Mail.
“He has had at least two other meetings with Ricchetti on April 22 and May 12 and another with top aide Bruce Reed,” The DM highlighted Gabriel Bankman-exceptional Fried’s chance to visit the White House in May in their story, noting that his brother Adam had previously been to one of such sessions.
The source added the following:
The former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Bankman-Fried, 30, is charged with securities and wire fraud. He is now under house arrest at his parent’s opulent Palo Alto residence worth an estimated $4 million after being released in a Manhattan court after posting a $250 million bail.
Recently, Bloomberg verified that high-level discussions were convened to examine the cryptocurrency market and exchange operations; these sessions were kept politically neutral.
Bankman-Fried made headlines in the political sphere by supporting Democrats in the 2022 election as one of their most benevolent backers. They were requested to speak at multiple hearings during that year, demonstrating their power on Capitol Hill.
A number of Democratic legislators who took donations from Bankman-Fried have reacted by donating the money to charity, sending it back, or waiting for the Justice Department’s advice on the appropriate course of action.
A 30-year-old former cryptocurrency billionaire will be charged with life in prison on January 3 after being accused of using FTX as his “personal piggy bank” and investing billions into a company that lost its investors tens of billions of dollars. He may spend 115 years behind bars if proven guilty on all charges, virtually destroying any chance of being let free.
“Following his December 12 arrest in the Bahamas, Bankman-Fried was held in the notorious Fox Hill Prison, where inmates are reportedly crammed in cells with multiple other inmates, without access to running water or other means of basic hygiene,” He appeared to have received special attention, the DM stated, adding.
“It was earlier reported that Bankman-Fried was held in the sickbay at the prison – dubbed ‘Fox Hell’ by fearful locals – where he reportedly received preferential treatment over other inmates,” the outlet continued.
“The embattled crypto crook reportedly had access to his own toilet, running water, a TV, local newspapers, crossword puzzles and a host of other perks – including food that adheres to his vegan lifestyle,” The report carried on.
Bankman-Fried, the brains behind a formerly $30 billion cryptocurrency exchange who was unluckily arrested as a result of errors made along the road, adamantly insisted in his innocence in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Two former coworkers of ex-FTX CTO Gary Wang and Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison have pleaded guilty and are now assisting federal prosecutors in what seems to be a linked inquiry.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for the White House, was questioned earlier this month about whether the Biden administration intended to request a refund of Bankman-campaign Fried’s contributions. She was unable to respond, however, because of limitations imposed by the Hatch Act, which forbids civil service employees from engaging in any kind of political activity.
“[I’m] limited on what I can say and anything that’s connected to political contributions from here, I would have to refer you to the DNC,” she said.
An Associated Press reporter who questioned the lady last week met with resistance. “I’m asking the president’s opinion, though.”
“You asked me two questions: You asked me about will he return donations and then you asked me about his opinion. I’m answering the first part, which is I’m covered by the Hatch Act from here. I’m limited on what I can say. And I just can’t talk to political contributions or anything related to that,” she said, adding: “I cannot speak to that from here.”
Keep in mind this Traitor is placing Federal Judges at a breakneck pace…why is that I wonder???
Helping laundering money? Or stealing more of We the People money? Think joe will pardon him?
the gop needs to get the heck out of dems minds. I mean come on guys. Haven’t you learned anything with the anti Trump movement the mafia and their media have spewed. Dems think they are the party that needs to rule our nation like a kingdom. And we learned that thru nancy they corrupted our voting system totally. THERE SHOULD BE NO MAIL IN BALLOTS. THOSE ARE MEANT FOR MILITARY SERVING OVERSEAS. AND THEY ARE DUMPED RAMDOMLY IN A BOX THRU OUT A CITY TO BE FURTHER CORRUPTED LIKE WE SEEN IN THE GA. VIDEO. I NOW CAUSE I VOTED BY MAIL IN WHILE STATIONED IN SPAIN BEFORE NANCY DECIDED SHE WANTED MY BASE CLOSED FOR OUR SALARIES AND THE FUNDS MEANT FOR RENTING THE BASE. THOSE BALLOTS WERE IN A CONTROLED STATE FROM THE MOMENT THEY WERE CAST TIL COUNTED. AND IT WAS DONE ON ELECTION DAY. WE HAVE ELECTIONS ON A DAY, A 24HR PERIOD. AND THAT IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. NOT A MONTH WHEREBY SOMEONE CAN COME AND BUY YOUR BALLOT FROM YOU AND WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY PUT ON IT. THEN YOU GO AND VOTE IN PERSON AND SEE IF YOU CAN HAVE A SECOND BITE OF THAT APPLE. WE FOUND DEMS CHEAT AT EVERYTHING AND THEY ARE GETTING BOLDER AND BOLDER SEEING US AS STUPID AND EASILY MANIPULATED. AN TO ADD TO THAT INSULT. WE FOUND THAT THEY SPENT THE MID TERMS MANIPULATING THE SYSTEM SO THEY COULD STACK THE VOTING SHEET WITH PEOPLE THEY WANTED ON BOTH SIDES. THEY IN ESSENSE FELT THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO “PICK” OUR GOP CANDIDATES. AND OF COURSE DENY AND TRY TO BLOCK OUT THE CANDIDATE THEY KNOW THEY “CAN NOT AND COULD NOT WIN AGAINST”. AND HOW FUNNY IS IT THAT DEMS DO NOT WANT TRUMP. THEY WANT US TO CHOOSE DESANTIS SO THEY CAN TRY THEIR BEST AT CAPTURING THE STATE THEY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. TRY TO GET DESANTIS AWAY FROM AND OUT OF FLORIDA AND UNDO ALL HE’S DONE. AND WORSE. MAKE IT THEIRS, TURN IT BLUE. AND OH, YA, THEY THINK THEY CAN BEAT HIM. THEY WILL ATTACK HIS FAMILY AND RECORD WHICH HAS NOT FORIEGN AFFAIRS TRAINING ON IT YET. WE NEED TO STOP LETTING DEMS PICK OUR CANDIDATE. WE HAVE TO STOP THE MEDIA AND THEIR MOUTH PCS FROM PUSHING CANDIDATES ON US AND TELLING US OUR CANDIDATE CAN’T RUN. RUN IS STILL TO GREEN. HE NEEDS TO STAY IN FLORIDA AND PROTECT THE STATE FROM THE DEMS. WE NEED DEMS TO STOP IMPLYING THEY WON. HECK JOBAMA SAID IT BETTER. HE DOESN’T FEEL COMFORTABLE IN THE WHITEHOUSE. NOT SURPRISED CAUSE HE KNEWS HE COUPED THE ELECTION. WE GOT 10 MILLION MORE DEMS TO VOTE FOR TRUMP THE SECOND TIME. THAT MEANS 10 MILLIONG LESS VOTED DEM IN 2020. THERE IS NO WAY THE EVIDENCE CAN’T BE TOLD EXCEPT THAT DEMS REFUSED TO ALLOW IT CAUSE THE TRUTH WILL HURT THEIR STANDING. I SAY JUST CAUSE THE TRUTH HURTS DOESN’T MEAN IT SHOULDN’T BE TOLD. WE GET IT YOU STOLE THE ELECTION. BUT YOU ALSO MADE IT CLEAR THAT BY INSTALLING BIDEN WE HAVE TO ACCEPT HIM. WE CAN’T PUT THE RIGHTFUL WINNER IN OFFICE UNTIL THIS TERM IS OVER. AND THAT IS IF HE RUNS AGAIN. WELL LET ME TELL THE DEMS. WE DON’T WANT TRUMP TO FINSIH THE TERM HE WON AND WAS STOLEN FROM HIM. CAUSE IT WON’T BE FAIR. YOU STOLE HALF THE TERM ALREADY. WE DON’T WANT TRUMP FOR A HALF A TERM WE WANT AND NEED HIM FOR A FULL TERM. ESPECIALLY NOW THAT HE WON’T HAVE STEALING NANCY TO DEAL WITH. I MEAN COME ON WE SAW THE WINKS AND THE SMIRKS SHE GAVE TO HER PEOPLE SO AS TO KEEP THEIR MANIPULATIVE ACTIONS GOING. WE KNOW SHE STOLE THE SPEAKER SEAT. AND THAT IS WHY SHE WAS VOTED OUT. WE DIDN’T LIKE HER CORRUPTING THE POSITION ANY FURTHER. WE WANTED A SPEAKER FOR “WE THE PEOPLE”. A SPEAKER WHO KNOWS “WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE BOSS”. SOMETHING DEMS AND NANCY DON’T. I MEAN COME ON. FOR ALL OF TRUMPS TIME WHAT DID NANCY DO. KEEP TRYING TO DICTATE OUR LANGUAGE AND WHAT WORDS WE COULD USE. THEN AFTER TELLING US WORDS ARE NO LONGER TO BE USED. SHE TOSSES THEM AROUND LIKE DANDELION SEEDS. THE OK FOR THE BY NOT ME HAS GOT TO STOP. DEMS NEED TO KNOW IT’S WE THE PEOPLE THAT DECIDE. NOT THE DEMS TELLING US WHAT WE WILL ACCEPT. NO WE TELL NANCY AND HER PARTY WHAT THEY WILL DO AND WHAT WE WILL ALLOW. SO MY FELLOW AMERICANS. TELL THE GOP GET ON BOARD ASAP. IF THEY ARE WEARY OF McMARTHY THEN PUT HIM ON A LEASE. BUT WE NEED TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNY SEEINGS THAT UNLIKE ON TRUMPS PRESIDENCY WHEREBY DEMS HAD 4+YRS TO CORRUPT THE SYSTEM WITH LIES AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. WE HAVE LESS THEN 2. WE NEED TO TELL McCONNOLL HIS DEM A$$ WIFE NEEDS TO BE OUT OF THE SYSTEM OR WE WILL GET OUR POUND OF FLESH FROM HER CHINESE SHIPPING COMPANY THAT FAILED US. REMIND McCONNOLL HE’S A GOP. AND HIS FAMILY SHOULDN’T BE DICTATING HIS CHOICES CAUSE THEY ARE DEMS LIKE PAUL RYAN ALLOWED. WE SEE WHERE HE IS NOW. TRYING TO DESTROY FOX SO CNN AND MSN LOOK LIGIT. NANCY AND JOBAMA MADE THE STATEMENT THEY HAVE FIXED THE SWITCH. THAT IS SCARY AND WE NEED TO NOT FALL INTO DEMS TRAP. THEY THINK THEY ARE SOME HOW GONNA STEAL THE SPEAKERS SEAT FROM US AND GIFT IT TO ONE OF THEIR HALF WHITE AND HATE THE WHITE CANDIDATES. WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN. WE HAVE BEEN LIVING UNDER BLACK SUPREMACY TO WAY TO LONG. WE NEED TO TAKE BACK THE GOVERNMENT FROM DEMS NOT LET THEM CONTROL US. REMEMBER WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO US. THEY ARE LABELING EVERYTHING WHITE AND WHITE IS BAD. BUT IN FACT IT’S NOT WHITE. IT’S BLACK. MLK SAID BLACK SUPREMACY IS THE WORSE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN AND WE LIVED IT AND WOW IT’S SO TRUE. AND REMEMBER WHAT WHITE IS FOR. WHEN THE DEMS SAY WHITE. IT’S LIKE A SECRETARY HAVING A TYPO. AND WHAT DOES SHE DO. SHE USES WHITE OUT. AND WHAT DOES WHITE OUT DO. IT COVERS OVER THE TRUTH TO CORRECT A FLAW. DEMS ARE TOTALLY DESTROYING OUR NATION AND COVERING IT UP WITH THE BOGUS STATEMENT OF IT’S WHITE SUPREMACY. WRONG. WE HAVE BEEN SUFFERING UNDER BLACK SUPREMACY. AND YOU SEE IT IN THE RACSIT BLACK JOURNALIST WHO MAKE EVERYTHING RACIST. CAUSE TO TELL THE TRUTH WOULD BRING US BACK TO REALITY AND TRUE EQUALITY. BLACKS DON’T WANT TO GIVE UP THEIR POWER OVER WHITE AMERICA. SO BLAME ALL THAT IS BAD ON WHITE, CALL IT SUPREMACY AND THERE YOU GO. WE ARE LIVING BLACK SUPREMACY. AND THERE’S PLENTY OF PROOF. WHITE PEOPLE HAVE TO ALLOW EVERYONE AROUND THEM TO OFFEND THEM WITH NO RECOURSE. WHITE PEOPLE CAN’T HAVE A VOICE OR SAY YOU OFFENDED ME. BUT EVERYONE ELSE CAN TELL A WHITE PERSON THE SIGHT OF THEM IS OFFENSE. SUDDENLY THE BLACK AN BROWN COMMUNITIES HAVE REALIZED WE ARE A WHITE NATION BUILT ON THE BACKS OF WHITE PEOPLE. BUILT BY WHITE PEOPLE. THAT 10 TIMES MORE WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BLED AND DIED FOR THIS NATION. AND THAT SCARES THEM. WE ARE A WHITE NATION. WHITE OWN THE POSITION AS MOST HONORABLE AND GROUP THAT BLED AND STRUGGLED THE MOST. RIGHT DOWN TO SLAVERY. IT WAS THE CONDITIONS OF WHITE SLAVES AND THEIR PLIGHT THAT GOT BLACKS THE TREATMENT THEY GO WHICH MADE THEIR TREATMENT LOOK LIKE A SPA DAY COMPARED TO WHAT WHITE SLAVES SUFFERED. EVER WONDER WHERE THE FAMILIES OF WHAT SLAVES ARE. IT’S TOO HARD TO FIND. OF OVER 300,000 SLAVES THAT WE KNOW OF BEARLY 200 CAN BE TRACED. MOST WHITE SLAVES DIED WITHIN 2 YRS OF THEIR ENSLAVEMENT. THEY WERE KNOWN AS INDENTURED SERVANTS. THAT LABEL BELONGS TO WHTIES ONLY. THOU OUR RACIST BLACK JOURNALIST HAVE TIME AN AGAIN STOLE THE PLIGHT OF THE WHITE SLAVE AND MADE IT THEIRS. LIKE OBAMA WHO NEVER WAS TOUCHED BY SLAVERY PRETENDS TO BE ONE LIKE HARRIS. DON’T HATE ON ME READ “WHITE CARGO” AMONG OTHERS. DO HOMEWORK YOU WILL LEARN THE POOR MENTAL GUY WHO DIED FOR MLK MURDER WAS INNOCENT. MLK STAFFERS WANTED TO PUSH EQUALITY RIGHT PAST TO BLACK SUPREMACY AND MLK KNEW IT WAS WRONG. EQUALITY WAS ALL THEY NEEDED. HIS FOLLOWERS KILLED HIM AND HIS FAMILY WAS MADE TO TOW THE LINE FOR THE SAKE OF THE MOVEMENT. IT WAS THE TREATMENT OF WHITE SLAVES. THEY WERE STARVED, BEATEN TO DEATH WITHIN TWO YRS OF THEIR STARTING SERVICE HERE. MOST WERE CHILDREN. THE KING OF ENGLAND ROUNDED UP CHRISTIANS AND TOSSED THEM HERE TO STEAL THEIR LANDS. ENGLAND DIDN’T WANT IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE. IT WAS WHTIE SLAVES THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE 1789 BILL FOR SLAVES TO BE TREATED IN KIND. BLACK SLAVES GOT HUTS FOR HOMES, FOOD IN THEIR BELLIES AND CLOTHS ON THEIR BACKS. THEY JUST HAD TO WORK A DAYS WORK FOR IT. THE WHITE SLAVE HAD TO PUT IN A DAYS WORK FOR FREE. THEN FIND A MEANS OF SHELTER, FOOD AND CLOTHING. NOW YOU KNOW WHY MOST IMPOVERISHED WORKING WHITE PEOPLE LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE BUSTING OUT OF THEIR CLOTHING IN REALISTIC SHOWS. CAUSE THEY WERE. AND THE FEW THAT GOT AWAY COULD SO EASILY FIT IN DO TO BEING WHITE THEIR SLAVE DRIVERS COULDN’T FIND THEM. THAT’S WHY WE DON’T TALK ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE BEING SLAVES. AND IF YOU NEED MORE. SINCE OBAMA. WHAT’S CAN’T CLAIM SOMEONE OFFENDED THEM. CAN’T USED CERTAIN WORDS THAT EVERYONE BLACK AND BROWN CAN. BUT NO BLACK AND OR BROWN PERSON HAS A SINGLE CARE IF THEY OFFEND SOMEONE AND THEY DO NOT HAVE TO MONITOR THEIR SPEECH SO AS TO NOT USE WORDS DEEMED OFF LIMITS. NOT OFFENSIVE. WORDS OFF LIMITS. WHITE PEOPLE CAN’T USE CERTAIN WORDS. WHITE PEOPLE ARE TO BE SEEN NOT HEARD. WHITE PEOPLE ARE TO GO TO THE BACK OF THE BUS SO TO SPEAK. WHITE PEOPLE ARE TO GO TO THE END OF THE LINE. WHITE PEOPLE ARE TO BE DENIED HONORABLE EDUCATIONS IF THEY ARE SMARTER THEN THEIR BLACK AND BROWN CLASSMATE. ALL HONOR CLASSES NEED TO BE SEEN AS RACIST IF A WHITE PERSON DOES BETTER. ALL WHITE STUDENTS NEED TO BE STRIPPED OF HONORS CAUSE IT’S OFFENSIVE TO BLACK AND BROWN. YOU GET IT YET. THE PROBLEM ISN’T WHITE. IT’S BLACK. HECK WE CAN’T EVEN STATE THE FACT ALL THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR DESTROYING CITIES AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NATION ARE DONE BY BLACK AND BROWN. BLM AND ANTIFA. THEY ARE THE WONS THAT DESTROYED THE CAPITAL NOT TRUMP VOTERS. THERE IS EVEN VIDEO OF PEOPLE CHANGING INTO TRUMP GEAR BEFORE THEY STARTED THEIRS, NANCY ORCHESTRATED RIOT. AND DO THE MATH. WHO IS THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS THE MONIES TO WORK FOR THE PEOPLE AND DID FOR FREE? WHO KNOWS WHAT THE DEMS HAVE DONE AND CAN DO? WHO KNOWS HOW THE DEMS WORK AND WHERE THE SWAMP IS? WHO WILL STAND UP TO DEMS? WHO WILL DRAIN THE SWAMP IF GIVEN THE CHANCE FOR REAL? WHO WILL PUT AMERICANS, AMERICA FIRST? ALL THE SAME, TRUMP. AND THAT IS WHY DEMS WANT US TO NOT SEE HIM AS A CANDIDATE. THEY KEEP USING THE MEDIA TO PUSH SOMEONE ELSE. DESANTIS. SO WE WILL STUPIDLY FOLLOW THEIR PUSH AND THEY HAMMER THE NEW CANDIDATE WHO WE CAN BE SURE WILL KNOW HOW TO DRAIN THE SWAMP. DEMS WANT ANYONE ELSE CAUSE THEY WILL NOT STAND UP TO OUR FOES OR ALLIES. NOT A SINGLE NATION AROUND THE PLANET WILL SEE THEM AS VIABLE TO DEAL WITH. NOT A SINGLE FRIEND OR FOE AROUND THE PLANET WILL SEE ANOTHER CANDIDATE AS SOMEONE TO DEAL WITH OR TRUST CAUSE DEMS HAVE DESTROY OUR TRUSTWORTHYNESS AROUND THE PLANET. JOBAMA/HARRIS LITERALLY DESTROYED OUR FORIEGN AFFAIRS HAVING OTHER NATIONS LOOKING AT US LIKE WE ARE RULED BY CLOWNS. AND THE ONLY PERSON THAT THEY WILL LISTEN TO OR TAKE SERIOUS IS TRUMP. CAUSE UNLIKE ANYONE ELSE. TRUMP CAN SAY. “I TOLD YOU SO”. “I WARNED YOU ALL”. “I WARNED YOU AGAINST DEALING WITH DEMS”, THE GREENY CRAP”. LOOK AT IT THIS WAY. DEMS THINK AND WANT STAR TREK. BUT REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE. STAR TREK IS BASED ON A PLANET 300YRS IN THE FUTURE AND A PEOPLE THAT SUFFERED A GLOBAL WAR BEFORE DESIGNING THE IMAGES THE DEMS SO DREAM OF HAVING. THE INFRASTRUCTURE DOESN’T EXIST AND HAS YET TO BE FOUND. YOU DON’T REMOVE THE TOILET VALVE BEFORE TURNING OFF THE WATER UNLESS YOU WANT TO CAUSE GREAT HARM TO YOUR HOME. WE HAVE TO STOP THE DAMAGE DEMS ARE DOING. THEY REMOVED THE VALVE WITH THE WATER TURNED ON. AND WANT US TO HAVE A UNTESTED, UNEDUCATED PLUMBER COME AND TELL US WHAT WE DID WRONG. WHEN ALL WE NEED IS THE GUY WHO KNOWS PLUMBING SHOW US WHERE THE SHUT OFF VALVE IS AND HOW TO FIX WHAT DEMS BROKE. HE DID IT ONCE HE CAN DO IT AGAIN. AND UNLIKE THE FIRST TIME HE HAS A CLUE WHO HE’S DEALING WITH. SO THERE WON’T BE THE SURPRISES WE HAD THE FIRST TIME. THAT IS WHY THEY COUPED 2020 AND WHY WE CAN’T LET THEM DO IT AGAIN BY DECIDING OUR CANDIDATE AS WELL.