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- Sam Bankman-Fried put political donations through two FTX execs to appear bipartisan, prosecutors say.
- One was told to give "to a lot of woke shit for transactional purposes," according to a new filing.
- Bankman-Fried preferred to keep Republican contributions "dark" but gave millions, prosecutors said.
Sam Bankman-Fried funneled political donations through two executives at FTX, his failed cryptocurrency exchange, to achieve bipartisan influence with both Democrats and Republicans in Washington, DC, prosecutors alleged in a new indictment Thursday.
Bankman-Fried "did not want to be known as a left-leaning partisan, or to have his name publicly attached to Republican candidates," so he instructed two executives to donate money to certain candidates and political organizations instead, prosecutors wrote in the filing.