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Where Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘dirty money’ entered Utah politics

The former CEO of crypto trading platform FTX has been indicted on charges of defrauding investors and customers of billions, then using some of that money to make illegal political contributions.

(Erika P. Rodriguez | The New York Times) Sam Bankman-Fried speaks at the Crypto Bahamas conference in Nassau on April 27, 2022. According to federal campaign records, in the lead-up to the 2022 elections, Bankman-Fried became the Democratic Party’s second largest single donor after George Soros.