Sam Bankman-Fried bought protection from the Government by donating to the Democrats. By Nicole Narea.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, … was Democrats’ second-largest individual donor in 2022 after George Soros, according to data from OpenSecrets. …

I’ll bet this bought him a lot of attention, good will, and access:

Back in May, Bankman-Fried committed to donating up to $1 billion to Democrats through 2024, but he later walked back those comments, telling Politico they were “dumb.” …

Bankman-Fried’s actual contributions to Democrats in the 2022 cycle totaled about $36 million.

As you do, and can, if you have a machine that basically prints money out of thin air.