Tag: Gabe Bankman-Fried

Disgraced Crypto Ex-CEO Was Plotting to Spend Nearly $1 Billion Boosting Democrats, Reshaping American Politics: Report

Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, had planned to become the biggest donor to the Democratic Party in 2024, a cycle in which he might have spent as much as $1 billion, according to investigative journalist Theodore Schleifer, writing for Puck News Wednesday, Nov. 23. The erstwhile billionaire filed in April, 2022, to incorporate…


How Money From Gates and FTX Bought Scientific Silence

Commentary Looking back, it’s utterly bizarre how the world of science could have gone so silent even as the world locked down and lives were shattered by the billions by governments the world over. The silence was deafening. We went from a March 2, 2020, letter signed by 800 public health experts associated with Yale…


Democrat on House Financial Services Committee Hired FTX Crypto Kingpin’s Brother

Commentary A Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee hired the brother of the head of the bankrupt cryptocurrency company FTX, potentially raising ethical questions. Gabe Bankman-Fried, the younger brother of FTX CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried, went to work in January 2019 for Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.). Casten, then a freshman congressman, was named that same…