[HN Gopher] Sam Bankman-Fried's implosion took down Democrats' s...
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Sam Bankman-Fried's implosion took down Democrats' second-biggest
donor
Author : alexfromapex
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-11-13 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (fortune.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (fortune.com)
| midislack wrote:
| Ukraine's aid money was in FTX. Very neat circular money
| laundering to DNC.
| zen21 wrote:
| Is there a link to evidence of this?
| midislack wrote:
| Oh yeah, for sure. Check Kim Dotcom's Twitter.
| throwaway5959 wrote:
| Kim Dotcom the Russian asset?
| midislack wrote:
| Everybody that isn't a Democrat is a Russian asset, duh.
| zen21 wrote:
| So no.
| midislack wrote:
| Actually, yes. Now do you again.
| xdavidliu wrote:
| you make the claim, you provide the evidence.
| jrmg wrote:
| Seems to be based on this?
|
| https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/14/ukraine-
| partners-...
|
| TL/DR you could donate crypto to Ukraine via FTX.
|
| It was supposedly converted to regular currency and sent
| to the Ukrainian national bank.
| [deleted]
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| And how was it funneled from Ukraine's government back to
| political candidates in the United States?
| jrmg wrote:
| Oh, I don't think it was! I meant my post to be read as
| 'here's the fact that's being twisted to fit this
| narrative!'
|
| I think we're intended to assume that it never reached
| Ukraine, was embezzled by SBF, then donated to Democratic
| campaigns.
|
| And, of course, we're meant to misread 'Ukraine's Aid
| Money' as being _all_ the money Ukraine received in aid
| from the US government, and then go on to believe that
| all the aid money the US was sending to Ukraine was being
| funnled to the Democratic Party. Two more obviously
| ridiculous leaps.
| wellthatsawrap1 wrote:
| Well let's certainly not investigate money flowing to one
| of the most corrupt countries in Europe through one of
| the biggest ponzi schemes we've had in years and just
| write it off as another conspiracy theory.
| dntrkv wrote:
| Burden of proof is on the person making the claim.
| Someone's Twitter account is not proof.
| steve76 wrote:
| samstave wrote:
| The democrats should be required to be fined and return to users
| for all those fraudulent stolen dollars ...
| tomohawk wrote:
| Will the Democrats give back the donations that came from the ill
| gotten gains?
|
| EDIT
|
| I'm going to guess "make excuses and keep the money" is going to
| be the way forward, based on the downvotes.
|
| It's sad that on HN you can no longer ask a question to see what
| points of view people might have, but instead just get a bunch of
| downvotes based on "I don't like the point of view".
| yieldcrv wrote:
| depends on the genealogy of that specific money
|
| if that specific money wasn't embezzled then nah
| defterGoose wrote:
| It's clear you're working with some funny money when you have
| to ask whether it's fungible or not...
| yieldcrv wrote:
| a standard that applies to all major banks equally
| mint2 wrote:
| Sounds like most the money went to pacs, which are independent
| of the candidates, so not sure how that would even work. Give
| back money that they didn't get?
| throwoutway wrote:
| This is what I was thinking. Now these politicians are tied to
| a corrupt/fraudulent billionaire. Would you want your name
| attached to Madoff?
| themihai wrote:
| I don't think that makes any sense if the money was spent.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _Would you want your name attached to Madoff?_
|
| Nobody is naming a wing after the guy. It's money legally
| spent. (Unless it was paid to SBF after FTX was insolvent.)
| In any case, gamblers haven't historically been a
| sympathised-for victim.
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| FTX's co-CEOs together donated tens of millions of dollars to
| both GOP and Democratic candidates in the midterms. Not exactly a
| partisan issue.
|
| https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-has-been-a-significant-do...
| [deleted]
| wellthatsawrap1 wrote:
| 92% went to democrats and SBF was planning to spend 1B to
| install who his handlers wanted as President. So no, it is a
| very partisan issue.
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| Try reading the very next sentence in the article.
|
| > FTX co-CEO Salame favors the red side of the political
| divide, donating $23.6 million to Republican campaigns for
| the current cycle.
| xqcgrek2 wrote:
| Chump change compared to SBF
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