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- Sam Bankman-Fried met with Jerome Powell last year to discuss crypto, per the NYT.
- Powell's other private-sector meetings that month were with top Wall Street CEOs.
- SBF also met with the FDIC chair, Martin Gruenberg.
Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, once met with Sam Bankman-Fried to discuss crypto, The New York Times reported.
The Times obtained emails showing the February 2022 meeting was arranged by Mark Wetjen, an FTX policy official and former commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.