{"id":1774100,"date":"2022-12-13T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774100"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:33:38","slug":"watch-sdny-drops-eight-indictments-against-top-dem-donor-he-says-there-may-be-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-sdny-drops-eight-indictments-against-top-dem-donor-he-says-there-may-be-more-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: SDNY Drops Eight Indictments Against Top Dem Donor. He Says There May Be More To Come."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-sdny-drops-eight-indictments-against-top-dem-donor-he-says-there-may-be-more-to-come%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">U.S. attorney asks &#8216;any person, entity, or political campaign&#8217; that received donations from Sam Bankman-Fried to return &#8216;stolen customer money&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 December 13, 2022 3:27 pm  <\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor who on Tuesday announced the indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried for &#8220;interrelated fraud schemes&#8221; hinted that he could press even more charges against the Democratic megadonor.<\/p>\n<p>While the press conference announcing eight counts against Bankman-Fried is prosecutors&#8217; &#8220;first public announcement,&#8221; U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said, &#8220;it will not be our last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/from-sixteen-billion-to-zero-dem-megadonor-sam-bankman-fried-has-lost-all-his-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged<\/a> $1 billion to Democratic candidates in this year&#8217;s midterms, founded the cryptocurrency firm FTX, which went bankrupt last month. Prosecutors now charge Bankman-Fried with defrauding customers of FTX, investors in FTX, and lenders to his hedge fund, as well as violating campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the Bahamas <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/crypto-kingpin-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> Bankman-Fried on Monday. The country plans to extradite the erstwhile billionaire, whose net worth is now nothing, back to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Williams said that Bankman-Fried used &#8220;stolen customer money&#8221; to &#8220;buy bipartisan influence and impact the direction of public policy in Washington.&#8221; As the Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/bankman-fried-and-cronies-gave-300k-to-house-committee-members-investigating-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, Bankman-Fried and his FTX cronies gave $300,000 to members of the House committee that is also investigating him. More than 95 percent of his contributions went to Democrats and Democratic committees.<\/p>\n<p>The federal prosecutor asked that &#8220;any person, entity, or political campaign that has received stolen customer money \u2026 work with us to return that money to the innocent victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he had a warning for &#8220;anyone who participated in wrongdoing at FTX&#8221; and who hasn&#8217;t come forward: &#8220;Come see us before we come see you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor who on Tuesday announced the indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried for &#8220;interrelated fraud schemes&#8221; hinted that he could press even more charges against the Democratic megadonor.<br \/>\nThe post WATCH: SDNY Drops Eight Indictments Against Top Dem Donor. 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