dishonorable ftx Founder Sam Bankman-Fried met with senior officials at the White House on at least four occasions before the collapse of FTX, the White House visitor’s log has revealed.
The last of the four meetings was reportedly held on September 8 between Sam Bankman-Fried – better known as SBF – and Steve Richetti, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden. Information about the last meeting has not been received publicly yet.
the news was earlier Reported on Thursday by Bloomberg, citing sources inside the White House “familiar with the situation.”
In addition to the September meeting with Ricchetti, Bankman-Fried was at the White House at least three times in 2022, according to previously disclosed visitor logs. The first of these meetings took place on 22 April, while the next took place on 12 May and 13 May. The first two were with Ricchetti, and the last was with Bruce Reid, another senior aide to President Biden.
Others, including SBF’s brother Gabriel Bankman-Fried and other FTX representatives, have also attended meetings at the White House, visitor logs showed. The meetings reportedly focused on the crypto industry, crypto exchanges, as well as global health and pandemic prevention.
Gabrielle Bankman-Fried leads Guarding Against Pandemics, an advocacy group dedicated to preventing the next pandemic.
don’t discuss politics
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a Bloomberg source said that politics was not discussed in any of the White House meetings. The source did not comment on whether donations or crypto regulation were discussed at the meeting.
Bankman-Fried is known as a major donor to the Democratic Party, and has been a public champion for issues ranging from climate change to global health. After the collapse of their exchange, however, he admitted that he had Donated to Republican politicians as wellBut that these donations were “black”.
in one interview With crypto influencer Tiffany Fong from November, SBF explains the reason for keeping its Republican donations secret:
“The reason wasn’t for regulatory reasons, it’s because if you donate to Republicans, journalists get to fuck.”
Movement is seen in Almeida’s wallet
As news of the SBF’s White House meetings emerged, blockchain data also showed unusual movement from several wallets controlled by Alameda Research, the trading firm of Bankman-Fried.
According to a report by data analyst Martin Lee of on-chain analysis platform Nansen, more than a thousand ETH Tokens were sent from a wallet controlled by Almeida, and to crypto swapping services ChangeNow and FixedFloat, before being consolidated into the new wallet.
Additionally, over 700k I do Tokens were swapped for 601 ETH and some 200,000 usdt Tokens from an Alameda wallet were used to buy 11.9 sBTC through Curve Finance’s Synth Swap, which was then swapped for 10.336 renBTC.
then redeemed for 10.336 renBTC B T cwrote the Nansen analyst.
It is important to note that there is no evidence that the transfers were made by the SBF, and that they could have been made by others with access to Almeida’s wallet.
SBF is currently living in my parents’ house in california on $250m bail.
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