Congresswoman Maxine Waters who chairs the committee said:
.Although Mr Bankman-Fried must be held accountable, the American public deserves to hear directly from Mr Bankman-Fried about the actions that’ve harmed over one million people, and wiped out the hard-earned life savings of so many. The public has been waiting eagerly to get these answers under oath before Congress, and the timing of this arrest denies the public this opportunity.
Bankman-Fried could still contest extradition to the US: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ppens-next
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried gave an interview with some Youtuber. He seems rather "relaxed" after reportedly losing some $15 billion in a couple of days.
The only interesting thing he said was that he donated as much to Republicans as to Democrats, but that this isn't known because he used "dark money" schemes, as he wouldn't want to "freak ... out" all of these "super liberal" reporters.
.All my Republican donations were dark. 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.
Starting at 12:54, Bankman Fried tells about the "dark money" Republican donations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DezodR9hNI
Whether Bankman Fried was telling the truth for once cannot be verified.
He also not very convincingly denies that he moved money around by a "hack": https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11 ... amory.html
Sam and his brother Gabe Bankman-Fried have been heavily funding the plandemic, spending "at least $70 million since October 2021 on research projects, campaign donations and other initiatives intended to improve biosecurity and prevent the next pandemic”.
Gabe even hastily founded the "non-profit" Guarding Against Pandemics that lobbies government to invest in "pandemic prevention plans”.
FTX funded a study that was trumpeted by the New York Times that showed no benefit to the use of (cheap) Ivermectin.
The FTX Future Fund invested $10 million in biotech start-up HelixNano, that develops a "next-generation coronavirus vaccine": https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/19/the ... lockdowns/
In a strange twist, Sam Bankman Fried hired attorney Mark S. Cohen, who recently defended Ghislaine Maxwell, the friend and co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewto ... 403#p81403