Democrats Give Back Less Than 3% of $45.2M Donation from FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was a major donor to the Democratic Party in the US, but the politicians who received the donations have so far only promised to return a fraction of what they got. The funds that are now be...
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The funds that are now being returned to the bankrupt crypto exchange make up just 2.2% – or $1 million – of the money Bankman-Fried donated to political candidates from the Democratic Party. Of the $1m, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has said it would return $850,000 to FTX....
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