The former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, suggested Thursday in an interview with the conservative expert Tucker Carlson that one of the reasons why they had given him a hard prison sentence was because he was approaching the Republican Party in the period prior to his arrest.
“A fact that could be relevant. In 2020 he was in the center-left and gave the Biden campaign, “he said.” It was optimistic that it would be a kind of solid president of the center left. I spent the following years in [Washington] Dc a lot. I made dozens of trips there, and I was very, very surprised by what I saw, not in a good direction, of the administration. “
“At the end of 2022 I was giving Republicans private as well as the Democrats. And that began to be known in FTX’s collapse, so he probably played a role, “Bankman-Fried added.
Bankman-Fried was convicted of multiple fraud and conspiracy positions in March 2024 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He made more than $ 40 million in political donations to 196 members of the Congress, including the former president of the Chamber of the Kevin McCarthy Chamber (R-Calif.) And the former leader of the majority of the Chuck Schumer Senate (DN.Y.). In other words, 1 in 3 legislators took money.
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During Bankman-Fried’s long trial, it was revealed that he had reflected several potential ways to rehabilitate his public image after FTX collapse. A Google document without date listed ideas such as “exiting the Woke Agenda” and “They go to Tucker Carlsen, leaves as a Republican.” With the Republican party now firmly in power in DC, the last idea has now apparently reached.
Bankman-Fried told Carlson that he had never waited much from the Democrats, but that he believed that some legislators would be reflective in both political parties. He criticized the former president of the Commission of Securities and Securities (SEC) Gary Gensler, qualifying the agency “something outside a nightmare” during his mandate due to the difficulties for cryptographic companies between and register.
When Carlson asked if he had called the favors of political figures during his trial, Bankman-Fríle denied him. However, 33 -year -old parents, former professors of Stanford’s Law Faculty, Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, have met with lawyers and other people in the orbit of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in an attempt to assure his son a presidential forgiveness.
“There is a long history there. It involves a law firm that assumed a fairly unusual and active role in the case, even before leaving FTX control, before it declared bankruptcy, the Department of Justice had already decided. “
Google’s Doc presented during the Bankman-Fried trial, he also suggested that he was planning to “talk about how the lawyer’s poster is destroying value and throwing businessmen under the bus to cover up the incompetence of lawyers.”
Bankman-Fried recently published a series of messages on social networks about the difficulties of dismissing employees, referring to the shots promulgated by the Government Efficiency Department (Doge). Bankman-Fried was criticized by the cryptographic community for the positions, which were perceived as an attempt to congratate the Trump administration.
