[HN Gopher] FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried funneled dark mone...
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FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried funneled dark money to
Republicans
Author : jasonhansel
Score : 18 points
Date : 2022-11-30 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| ratsmack wrote:
| Hopefully, they claw back all of the donations regardless of
| political affiliation.
| zthrowaway wrote:
| But let's not talk about the overwhelming donations to Democrats?
|
| https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/11/05/cryptocurrency-c...
| rhaway84773 wrote:
| They have been talked about a lot.
|
| The news is that we are discovering that he wasn't just
| funneling money to Democrats.
|
| Even his public money was weighted towards Democrats 2:1...it's
| not like he was publicly only donating to Democrats, but now it
| appears that overall he probably donated equally to both
| parties.
| ffwacom wrote:
| The vast vast majority was to Democrats though. Unbelievable
| pilpul.
| jasonhansel wrote:
| He said that he donated roughly equal amounts to both parties,
| as stated in the article.
| ffwacom wrote:
| Yeah, just conveniently they were 'dark', so can't be
| substantiated.
| jafo wrote:
| How are 'dark' donations not afoul of campaign finance
| laws??
|
| Or is this just another SBF lie?
| rhaway84773 wrote:
| Citizens United.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
| hotpotamus wrote:
| It's some Supreme Court interpretation of free speech
| plus legislation. I remember Al Franken talking about
| this a bit in the context of a law requiring disclosure
| that he supported but was not successful.
|
| Looks like the dynamic hasn't changed much since he
| talked about it.
|
| https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-make-remarks-
| tuesday-...
| legitster wrote:
| >"I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to
| both parties," Bankman-Fried told the crypto commentator and
| citizen journalist Tiffany Fong.
|
| >"All my Republican donations were dark," he said, referring to
| political donations that are not publicly disclosed. "The reason
| was not for regulatory reasons, it's because reporters freak the
| fuck out if you donate to Republicans. They're all super liberal,
| and I didn't want to have that fight."
|
| Well, that's brazenly honest, I guess.
| jerkstate wrote:
| he says he made donations based on covid policies. which
| republicans had covid policies that he would have agreed with?
| honestly this sounds like deflection, why should we believe it
| without any evidence?
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