Somehow SBF returned
｢ Mr. Bankman-Fried has been slowly re-emerging as a public figure. Last week, he posted on X for the first time since January 2023, reflecting on Mr. Trump’s layoffs across the federal work force. He argued that sometimes it was important to fire people ｣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/technology/sam-bankman-fried-pardon-trump.html
Ok y’all, we’ve talked about stock market manipulation and we’ve talked about crypto fraud and the First Crime Family, but have we talked about Howard Lutnick and how money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
The Cryptocalypse Chronicles has a multi post series, of which part two is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether, and does business with gangs and sanctioned individuals and nations like Hamas, North Korea and Iran, and funds #pigButchering scams and illegal weapons and drug trades.
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
As part of the #clemency effort, #SBF’s parents Mr. Bankman & Ms. Fried, who are #Stanford University #law professors & longtime active #Democrats [shame], are consulting w/Kory Langhofer, an AZ atty who worked for #Trump’s 2016 & 2020 presidential campaigns. Politically connected businesspeople & DC lobbyists have also received outreach from intermediaries who claim to be allies of #SamBankmanFried….
…The push appears intended to capitalize on #Trump’s #transactional approach to #clemency. Trump favors #pardon seekers w/connections to him—either personally or through lawyers & lobbyists—& claims of *prosecutorial misconduct* [perceived persecution] that echo his own #grievances about the cases against him.
Consulting with a lawyer who has ties to #Trump. Reaching out to Washington #lobbyists. And sitting for a jailhouse interview with #TuckerCarlson.
#SamBankmanFried, the disgraced #cryptocurrency mogul who was once a top #Democratic donor, has embarked on a campaign to secure a #pardon from Trump, 6 people with knowledge of the matter said.
#criminal #law #felon47 #SBF #SEC #fraud #MoneyLaundering #broligarchy #cryptobros #technocracy #CryptoSummit #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/technology/sam-bankman-fried-pardon-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=192A242F-DC90-4B09-B637-04864D8EE473
Tucker Carlson explicitly acknowledges the purpose of political megadonations
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@TuckerCarlson
Sam Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years behind bars, and is now sharing a cell block with Diddy. He joins us from prison for an update on his new life.
(0:00) What Has Prison Been Like?
(2:28) Was SBF Ever on Adderall?
(4:42) SBF Meeting Diddy in Prison
(7:01) How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective
[begin highlight] (9:37) The Democrats Refused to Rescue SBF Despite His Large Donations [end highlight]
(15:24) The Future of Crypto Under Donald Trump
(21:17) Does SBF Have Any Money Left?
(24:42) Tucker Confronts SBF About His Effective Altruism Cult
(31:13) Will SBF Ever Actually Get Out of Prison?
(36:41) Why All of SBF’s Friends, Family, and Co-Workers Abandoned Him
Includes paid partnerships.](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/121/896/352/980/930/original/6d51435742e236eb.jpeg "Tweet screenshot: Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Sam Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years behind bars, and is now sharing a cell block with Diddy. He joins us from prison for an update on his new life.
(0:00) What Has Prison Been Like?
(2:28) Was SBF Ever on Adderall?
(4:42) SBF Meeting Diddy in Prison
(7:01) How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective
[begin highlight] (9:37) The Democrats Refused to Rescue SBF Despite His Large Donations [end highlight]
(15:24) The Future of Crypto Under Donald Trump
(21:17) Does SBF Have Any Money Left?
(24:42) Tucker Confronts SBF About His Effective Altruism Cult
(31:13) Will SBF Ever Actually Get Out of Prison?
(36:41) Why All of SBF’s Friends, Family, and Co-Workers Abandoned Him
Includes paid partnerships.")
You gotta be kidding me..
SBF is getting interviewed from prison by a clown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BLzWTRmq2k
"Sbf getting a pardon is on my 2025 bingo card" indeed
#TuckerCarlson just released an interview with #FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried (#SBF) from federal prison (somehow).
Pardon incoming...
"Povolotski: This isn't $20. This is not $100 million. This is like 200 to— this is #FTX type of shit.
Chow: Fucking hell, man. I feel sick… This is, this is, this is, this is #SBF level, man.
Later in the call, Povolotski reiterates: “This is in the multi-millions with a president, two presidents, one with his wife and the other is a president. Like, this is... I don't know anyone higher.”
#crypto #cryptoscam #Milei #Argentina
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/
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As for the apparent smoking gun, in which he texted his brother to say that “Sam will route money through me” to donate to Republicans without it being connected back to him, he says it was just a way to try to avoid awkward Thanksgiving conversations.
![But Salame has an explanation for this too: he says his Republican affiliation has been an issue in the past, and he “needed an explanation for [the donations] and a way to describe that that would sort of allow us to all have Thanksgiving together.” Although he claims that many of his donations to Republicans were in pursuit of pandemic preparedness initiatives, he “knew the pandemic stuff was not going to resonate at all because I had never spoken about pandemics before, and now I was going to become a massive Republican contributor to stop pandemics. That sort of messaging wasn't going to resonate.”
Evidently, it would be easier and less contentious at Thanksgiving if he admitted to federal crimes he hadn’t actually committed, rather than explain his newfound interest in pandemic response — an interest he successfully explained to me rather coherently in the span of a few minutes.](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/347/478/696/751/808/original/70998ec5805d144d.png "But Salame has an explanation for this too: he says his Republican affiliation has been an issue in the past, and he “needed an explanation for [the donations] and a way to describe that that would sort of allow us to all have Thanksgiving together.” Although he claims that many of his donations to Republicans were in pursuit of pandemic preparedness initiatives, he “knew the pandemic stuff was not going to resonate at all because I had never spoken about pandemics before, and now I was going to become a massive Republican contributor to stop pandemics. That sort of messaging wasn't going to resonate.”
Evidently, it would be easier and less contentious at Thanksgiving if he admitted to federal crimes he hadn’t actually committed, rather than explain his newfound interest in pandemic response — an interest he successfully explained to me rather coherently in the span of a few minutes.")
One thing that became clear to me throughout my conversation with Salame is that he doesn’t seem to believe wealthy people are capable of theft.
Newsletter: Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison
FTX’s Ryan Salame and I discuss his claims that he’s innocent of the charges for which he’s now serving seven and a half years in prison.
https://www.citationneeded.news/guilty-or-coerced-ryan-salame/
Not only has the #Biden admin vigorously enforced #antitrust #laws, putting a damper on deal-making, but it has also sought to aggressively regulate the #cryptocurrency sector. At the same time, the arrest & conviction of the crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried #SBF, the government bailout of #SiliconValley Bank &” the rising, uncertain specter of #ArtificialIntelligence were all feeding a broader skepticism toward the #tech industry in general.
this blurb on michael lewis's new book feels uh... slightly insensitive
