In a recent appearance on The Jenna Ellis Show, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14) defended Kevin McCarthy’s receipt of dark money from the company, FTX, whose founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested on December 12th in the Bahamas after the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed an eight-count indictment against him.
“As then as far as going for his donations. Of course I can’t speak to his donations because they’re not mine and I didn’t receive them. But what I do understand about the FTX donation is it wasn’t that Sam Brinkman-Fried, Freed, whatever his name is. The one that everyone, that looks like he should be going to jail. It appears to be on the FEC statement that I saw, is [that] it was another employee of FTX. And I don’t know anything about that person. So I think people, when they’re looking into that story need, need to recognize that it wasn’t the Sam Bankman-Fried. It was another employee of that company.”
The lion’s share of the donations to the Republicans backed by FTX were from executive, Ryan Salame.
"What I do understand about the FTX donation [to McCarthy] is it wasn't that [SBF], the one that everyone, that looks like he should be going to jail. It appears to be…another employee of FTX, [sic]." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14) said. pic.twitter.com/VfiVtAXGJ6
— Addy Adds (@OneAddyAdds) December 21, 2022
Salame was described as “a major donor both to McCarthy’s own operation and to other groups backing McCarthy’s favored candidates.”
Twitter denizen, Charles Willis, opined on the race for the next Speaker of the House.
“If McCarthy wins nothing will happen to the RINOs who helped the democrats corrupting of congress and the breaking of laws,” Willis said.
To add insult to injury, in addition to McCarthy’s support from FTX-laundered money, House Freedom Caucus members Warren Davidson (R-OH-08) and Byron Donalds (R-FL-19) were part of the effort to immediately block an investigation into FTX by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Greene doubled down on her support for House Minority Leader McCarthy (R-CA-23) in an op-ed published on Wednesday.
Former Republican political candidate from Delaware, Lauren Witzke, entertained the idea that blackmail or a personal relationship has affected Greene’s endorsement of McCarthy.
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FTX founder, Bankman-Fried, began his extradition to the U.S. on Wednesday after his indictment was officially announced on December 13th.
SBF was charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission, and conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations.
Bankman-Fried has been held at Fox Hill prison, the only prison in the Bahamas, since his arrest on December 12th, with his official SDNY indictment released on the 13th. pic.twitter.com/XrHPMJPZOw
— Addy Adds (@OneAddyAdds) December 21, 2022
SBF will arrive in New York City as soon as Wednesday evening.
