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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by red-iron-pine on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:15PM (#39854568)
why would Biden do that? plenty of his guys got burned by crypto, and the democratic donations are soaring due to DJT's continued proto-fascistic behavior, not via SBF or his family's efforts.

it's like saying Trump could pardon him on the way in -- and might

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by philwelch on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:04PM (#39855249)
Google Marc Rich. Politicians take care of the people who take care of them.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by mikeyouse on Thursday March 28, 2024 @04:27PM (#39856907)
Or Charles Kushner or Paul Manafort or Roger Stone or Conrad Black or Steve Bannon or Elliott Broidy..
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by dragonwriter on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:18PM (#39854602)
> it's like saying Trump could pardon him on the way in

That is more likely than a Biden pardon: Trump in his first term was big on pardoning both financial criminals and people involved in political corruption on both sides of the aisle, and SBF is both a financial criminal and someone involved in political corruption (on both sides of the aisle, even), so he is something of an ideal Trump pardon candidate.

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by harambae on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:44PM (#39854971)
> That is more likely than a Biden pardon

Since SBF publicly despised Trump, donated vast sum to his opponents, and tried to architect Trump not being president I'd say that's less likely.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sbf-wanted-tom-brady-to-run-...

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by xdavidliu on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:16PM (#39855410)
I read in the Michael Lewis book that at one point SBF was floating the idea of paying Trump not to run, and asked around for what a reasonable number would be, and figured it would be around 50 billion
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by carom on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:40PM (#39854932)
He was one of Biden's biggest donors and generally supports democrats.

>Bankman-Fried’s largest donations were $27 million to his own super PAC, which supported Democratic candidates, and $6 million to a PAC that helps elect Democrats to the U.S. House. Bankman-Fried also gave the maximum $5,800 each to support dozens of candidates, mostly Democrats.

>President Joe Biden’s 2020 run for president was one of the major beneficiaries of Bankman-Fried’s donations. Bankman-Fried gave $5 million to a PAC that supported President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, $50,000 to Biden Victory Fund, and $2,800 directly to Biden for President.

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/16/ftx-...