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Bankman-Fried used $100 million in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

CRYPTO MARKET: The value of crypto assets have begun to bounce bank one year on from the arrest and charging of crypto darling and industrial fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

By Luc Cohen

Sam Bankman-Fried used money he stole from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange to make more than $100 million in political campaign contributions before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

An amended indictment accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of directing two FTX executives to evade contribution limits by donating to Democrats and Republicans, and to conceal where the money came from.

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