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by michaelbuckbee 1300 days ago
Well, he claims to have given about as much to both parties (just in different ways).

https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-poli...

Cynically, this makes sense to me as what he was buying was really lack of government oversight.

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> Cynically, this makes sense to me as what he was buying was really lack of government oversight.

Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that for something like this he didn't need to actually get the government to do anything: simply delaying action gave him the chance to do hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.