Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried met with authorities officers on the White Home on a minimum of 4 separate events in 2022, and reportedly a gathering simply two months earlier than the autumn of his crypto empire.
Many of the conferences have been disclosed in customer logs that are posted by the White Home each month, exhibiting that Bankman-Fried had met with Counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti on Apr. 22, 2022 and Might. 12, 2022 together with one other assembly on Might 13 assembly with coverage advisor Charlotte Butash
Nonetheless, in line with a Dec. 29 Bloomberg report, the previous FTX CEO additionally met with the President’s counselor Ricchette as lately as Sept. 8, in a gathering that didn’t present up on the customer logs.
The revelation has piqued the curiosity of crypto neighborhood members, who wish to know why there appeared to be such a revolving door of visitations between FTX and the White Home.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly had 4 conferences on the White Home main as much as the 2022 mid time period elections.
Biden wants to clarify what his administration was doing assembly so usually with crypto fraudster SBF.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) December 29, 2022
As per the report, sources recommended politics had not been mentioned on the assembly, and that conversations have been targeted on the crypto business, exchanges and pandemic prevention.
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Regardless of dwelling within the Bahamas Bankman-Fried is known to have been an everyday customer to Washington as he pushed to affect crypto coverage and make connections in Washington, and was beforehand accused of making an attempt to redirect regulators away from centralized exchanges like FTX to decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms resembling lending protocol MakerDAO.
Bankman-Fried was a vital donor to the Democrats, and in a Nov. 16 interview with crypto vlogger Tiffany Fong admitted that he had donated concerning the identical to each events, however that his “Republican donations have been darkish.”
