The timing is transparent, given all of the political donations organized by FTX Cryptocurrency CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for politicians, mostly Democrats, in office.
On the day before he was scheduled to give testimony to congress, a testimony likely to be entertaining with representatives asking specific questions about political contributions by the known fraud MBS to other specific members of congress, the cryptocurrency executive is arrested in the Bahamas.
(Via Daily Mail) – Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, has been arrested.
The crypto billionaire, 30, was arrested in The Bahamas – where he has been hiding out since his $32 billion empire came crashing down last month – and he is now facing criminal charges in the US.
American prosecutors have filed the unspecified charges against the FTX founder, and are ‘likely to request his extradition.’
In a statement, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said: ‘The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law.
‘While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, The Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere.’ (read more)
Send Hunter with bail money.
Actually, that’s the Kamala-kaze’s job!
“SBF’s suicide was a surprise to his family and himself”
“I was stunned by Epstein’s suicide, though probably not as much as Epstein himself.” — John McAfee
Joke’s on him, right?
Since there are no charges pending in the US, nobody will be filing the paperwork to bring Fried home any time soon. Since he has been arrested he can’t attend Congress’s clown show either. So he and DNC are 100% off the hook. Since Civil legal proceedings are in the US, Fried won’t be bothered by this either. And all perfectly legal!
“American prosecutors have filed the unspecified charges against the FTX founder, and are ‘likely to request his extradition.’”
Or, send Hunter with one of his a new “paintings”.
“Sources tell the wapo that Hillary Clinton’s Caribbean vacation was cut short due to pressing financial matters back home. She sends her condolences to the Fried family”.
Hill doing her own wet work now?
Naah, she wouldn’t let herself be bothered with menial tasks, and a random suicide is nothing to her. s/
Ah, too bad
I was envisioning the Hollywood treatment where she emerges out of a midnight black ocean in a high-thigh-cut wetsuit with a big dive knife on a waist belt and begins to slowly draw down the front wetsuit zipper …
No – wait – that’s Raquel Welch I’m thinking of …
…. or maybe Sofia Vergara
HER> in a wetsuit would be, um? Orca?
Free Willy Part Deux?
I think “frightening” is the descriptor you’re searching for, Rusty
(w/ reference to Hill, that is — I presume you’re not talking about Sofia or Raquel)
He needs his own GoPro in his jail cell. You know how official cameras. tend to “break” during these types of arrest and incarceration.
I wonder how the air traffic is going to be from the Bahamas to Dulles, tomorrow?
Will that big storm hit DC that soon?
The games are so obvious…are TPTB so dense, they don’t see that we see the games for what they are…coverups?
“…are TPTB so dense, they don’t see that we see the games for what they are…coverups?”
They know.
They just don’t care.
Most people don’t seem to be able to really grasp this and comes to terms with it:
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.
In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“They pretend to pay us…We pretend to work!”
Someone at the DOJ sure doesn’t want the Democrats’ second largest donor talking to a Congressional committee!!!
Don’t worry they put John Durham on the case!
Charged but “likely” to be extradited?
Where are the “filed criminal charges”? Let’s see a copy of the notice?
Charges filed by who?
SBF DNKHS in a Bahamian jail.
Got a fiver says he doesn’t make it out of the Caribbean.
Everyone in the news media was shocked by SBD’s sudden and unexpected suicide in prison but no one was more surprised than SBF himself!
Arkanside.
My money is on the plane… thru the Bermuda Triangle…another unexplained flight loss.
Got a 20 says if he does, his theme song will be Drop The Soap.
https://bobrivers.com/drop-the-soap/
Now that’s funny right there !!
There will be no takers on that one old chap. San Fried will soon become become French fried!
if he does, it will be to the same cell Jeffrey Epstein occupied.
SDNY
Tells you about all you need to know.
“Unspecified charges”. Sure, DOJ, your office arrests people for “unspecified” crimes every day. They’re surely going to need time in the Bahamas to get to the bottom of these unspecified charges. May take a few months.
Isn’t that called a “general warrant”? And unconstitutional?
I suspect it is many on the committee that dont want SBF interviewed!
Many on the committee TOOK MONEY from SBF.
Sammy Bankman hyphen Fried is an official sponsor of the investigative committee.
Dinner tonight for Sam : soggy meatloaf, butter beans, stale cornbread, orange aid. Dessert: Bubba.
Not Jefferie’s Bubba……
Could be…..
It better be a Kosher dinner or else!
Why is that, CalJoe?
Does Sam keep kosher, really?
Got a reliable source?
Or are you saying that just because he’s Jewish?
In that case, it’s an insulting antisemitic remark to all Jews.
Is that what you meant?
Oh please
It has been my observation that people who do not go out of their way looking for insults find far fewer of them…
In the jails where I worked…the “kosher” diet was a substitute used and abused, by those who practiced Islam…to get a meal without pork. The “kosher” diet was actually better food.
Del Griffith (Planes, Trains, and Automobiles). : “On American, I’ll have their kosher plate: a little slice of salami, some roast beef, some turkey, dark rye bread, very nice….”
No pickles, thank you. chuckling
I’m Jewish and took no offense at the comment.
Everyone’s feelings are so concerning to themselves. People soft as marshmallows need to realize no one care about their feelings, facts are what matter!
Unfortunately, the majority of society has let themselves be conditioned by the entertainment industry – movies, music, teevee – and now has a subconscious perspective that feelings are reality. More fool them.
Bravo. We are all sick to death of the panty wetters who get upset over anything and everything.
No offence was meant, Stephanie!
6,000,001
Now that’s funny!
Well, it sure seems like it comes with the territory. Doesn’t it! LOL
Elwood Blues used to complain about the oatmeal at Cook County….at least Jake and Elwood were on a mission from God!
I am offended. As a Jewish kid I was the victim of several beatings by other kids.
It stopped when my parents took me out of Hebrew school.
He is going to be fed the Bobby Sands diet in prison.
What timing. The day before he is scheduled to testify. Sure. No coincidence here.
TPTB need to keep the back story quiet. It can NEVER be divulged exactly who were the “beneficiaries” of the election interferences and payoffs.
I believe this is so deep that TPTB WILL commit murder to hide all of it.
you misspelled Arkancide
Wth is TPTB?
The powers that be
The Powers That Be, aka our overlords.
I still consider them our so-called overlords.
“A man who doesn’t teach his son a trade teaches him to be a thief.” – Looks like the government’s taking care of this for us.
(The hubris of the modern “professional” class doesn’t understand that too many parasites and not enough producers equals utter economic collapse for everyone. Back in the day the parasites understood that the only thing they had to sell was integrity.)
These parents were SBF’s partners in crime.
Stanford’s finest
I like that…a substitute for the word “elites”…’modern professional class’…and what is this “integrity” you speak of?/s
Everyone knows I despise Americans calling themselves ‘elite’…differentiating themselves to be ‘better’ than “We the People”.
sam has parents who are professionally accredited economists. Who recently just decided to “retire” from highly esteemed teaching positions. I don’t believe in coincidences.
a grad from MIT, with this kind of background, and he doesn’t seem to know much about how funds were “co mingled” between ftx and alameda research? lol.
what his parents did not teach him: how to keep your mouth shut and lawyer up.
I want to hear from the ceo, whatshername. She seems to have more value and I want to see her testify …maybe she has already done the required cosmetic surgery and passport swap and is living large?
I don’t understand sam. he is either the most stupid big time criminal, OR, he has a reason to not have fear of prosecution.
maybe he’s smarter than we can allow ourselves to imagine. spend 5 years, out in 3 on good habits, pays a billion in fines and restitution. And he still has made off with one of the largest swindles in modern history.
maybe the lesson will be that people start to understand that virtual currency is one big sucker bet.
God Bless America
It’s an ongoing investigation, don’t ask any questions because you won’t get any answers.
Any over/unders on how many days until we learn about another novel way to kill yourself while in a Federal prison cell?
Surely, some of Emilio Largo’s henchmen are still around in Nassau to feed CryptoCreep to the sharks at a pool conveniently behind the jail….
The bed nailed to the wall fell off and squished someone to death?
There was a food shortage so they quit feeding him?
Just the DC crime syndicate getting rid of evidence of their capital crimes.
Anyone that thinks this government is Constitutionally legitimate is an idiot of the first order.
SBF’s crime is showing the world how big a con digital currencies are.
All currencies you hold, in whatever form, are a transaction half made.
No, wait, there is a mistake here. Vox says that Sam was only practicing “effective altruism”. He grew up the child of wealthy, intellectual parents who encouraged giving to needy causes (like electing Democrats and padding your own pockets), so there is no crime here. Too bad his extended vacation in the Bahamas was cut short.
Well, I am just shocked. Shocked!
… that there’s gambling going on here!
Obviously like Madoff he must have screwed the wrong people otherwise he’d still be celebrated by the New York Times as man of the year!
That title has already been bestowed on “The George Washington of the Ukraine” who is the savior of “democracy”. 🙄
They are more concerned that he outs certain people, than they are about SBF screwing anyone out of money.
The day before he was too testify. . .
The most likely words we will hear from the jailers when he gets to the same holding cell as Epstein.
“He was alive when we last checked on him”
Epstein was arrested too…..
McAfee was also arrested….
And McAfee had “I did not commit suicide” tattooed on his arm. FOR REAL!
So this clown is in jail? I’m sure SBF is not suicidal.
He was arrested. I doubt he is in jail.
How convenient
Bankman Fraud didn’t kill himself!
“The Crypto Billionaire … 30 …” Oh, come on.
P. T. Barnum might have died in 1891, but his principles certainly did not die with him:
“There’s a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.”
At some point or another, “The Swamp™” operatives calculated that “this ‘Crypto’ thing” might be a useful avenue for money laundering, and that right here they had another “Lee Harvey Oswald” …
“… a pansy.”
Oswald was a patsey but your right Sam looks like a pansy
“At some point or another, “The Swamp™” operatives calculated that “this ‘Crypto’ thing” might be a useful avenue for money laundering,”
Yup. “Bitcoins are cool. Teslas are cool. Rockets, they’re cool too. They’ll fall for anything if we make it sound cool”
Currency schemes have been around as long as money changers have been around.
https://fxtradinger.com/forex-trading-ponzi-scheme/
SBF did not kill himself!
Arrested in the ‘Bahamas’. I wonder why Epstein was allowed to have a whole Island in the Bahama’s all to himself.?
Virgin Islands
Where is Epstein Island and what happened there? – The US Sun
Depressing but enlightening … Every topic today on the forum illustrating the machinations of the deep state.Domestic to international.
And doubly depressing is how effective the swamp is at every turn. Seemingly with endless money and unlimited power. With tentacles reaching deep into every nook and cranny. With multiple narratives fine tuned and orchestrated by the vast majority of most influential media outlets.
The fundamental dynamic of history has mostly come down to good versus evil, with stability always a temporary pause. Technologically the present age is more advanced than ever before. But morally as fallible as any as well. And perhaps exponentially with more of an evil quotient because the tools of today provide more devious methods of inflicting widespread evil.
I think it’s more than simply positing greed as a motive. The architects of this new world order already have more wealth than anyone can dream of. The lust is for power to shape and control the world according to their vision. Which is egotism at it’s most extreme.
This driving impetus comes from much deeper in the human psyche. Call it ‘demonic’ in whatever sense you want. From a depth psychology Jungian perspective or some even more raw raging inferno of Luciferian proportions.
The myth of Atlantis seems a mild fairy tale compared to the direction the world is heading.
What a joke our once great Republic has become.
If you read Mark Twain and HL Mencken, you’ll start to suspect there is nothing new under his he sun.
And, to think, we would have never known had it not been for Trump.
Abuse of power wherever it can be done – which seems to be everywhere.
Not a good situation to know too much. He shoulda come clean immediately and saved himself.
For some reason he believed he had nothing to fear. How is the girlfriend doing? Or any fringe players for that matter.
I think they’re ALL pretty fringe from what I could see
If he wants to live, he’ll keep his mouth shut, wait for a pardon down the line. If not he gets Epsteined.
fun fact: in last day in office, clinton pardon marc rich…who “sold” millions of dollars of junk bonds to unsuspecting investors here in the US and abroad. Marc Rich fled to switzerland and escaped justice. Was never prosecuted for his crimes. Bill Clinton pardoned him while he was hiding out.
spoiler: if you want to read about one of the most notorious criminals in all of US history, marc rich sets new bars that few have ever come close to exceeding. which explains why and how he became such close friends with the clintons and the democrats writ large.
God Bless America
“Where’s the money, Lebowski?”
MadMaxW is probably flying him on her private jet so he doesn’t suffer… notice the sealed indictment is via the notorious SDNY where a slap on the wrist is common fare or if Sam’s lucky, a spanking from Maxine. Victor Davis Hanson has written a masterpiece on amgreatness.com on the destruction of our country by design…
To quite the Church Lady: How convenient!
And so ends the Sam story. It will be 50 years in the future before anyone sees him or learns of Sam’s fate.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this they are putting it into the corrupt deep state to control it.
Sam looks very depressed. Perhaps even distraught. I hope they don’t leave him alone in his cell for too long.
Ghislaine Maxwell : I’ll tell you who the pederasts are.
DOJ : We don’t care.
Sam : I’ll tell you who the corrupt Dems are.
DOJ: We don’t care.
DOJ doesn’t care because they already know, have known for decades, and intend to keep using that leverage.
Pedophiles are in 2 classes. The Criminal Class that ends up in jail, and the Elite Class that ends up in Public Office. No Diff.
Both classes ought to be extinct. But they aren’t. But with a little luck, they might be. Who knows? Life is unpredictable.
She’s jailed for pimping to pedophiles. The identity of the pedophiles is concealed by evil judges.
Well, to reprise what then Mr Trump said to his son before he came down that escalator to announce his run for the presidency, I’m sure SBF is saying to himself…
“Now I’ll find out who my friends are.”
…or more likely who they aren’t.
1 Billion dollars to steal an election
They couldn’t use Zuck again. So next man up. In 2024 it will be someone else.
I think they’ll try another pandemic. Gates and company are already gaming one for 2025 the way they did CoupVID-19(84).
This video was floating around yesterday. Apologies if someone already posted it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/world-health-organization-bill-gates-john-hopkins-just-conducted-another-pandemic-simulation-time-virus-deadlier-targets-children/
Only a year late – sort of like they were the first time too…
Released on bail. Investigated. Tried in or near DC. Found innocent by DC jury of Dem supporters.
Someone in Washington really, really, really doesn’t want him to make any public statements
I’m guessing 4 of them are in that last photo
The beneficiaries of his largesse didn’t turn a blind eye, they just thought he was a good dem doing his part to save “democracy”.
Wake me up when the FBI arrests SBF’s accomplice SEC Chairman Gary Gensler!
“SEC Chairman Gensler Scrubbed Evidence Of Clinton, Soros And Pelosi Meetings:
Sunlight is the best disinfectant – unless you’re Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler – who scrubbed evidence of a meeting with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from his calendar, along with key details of a meeting with Billionaire leftist-operative George Soros.”
Sam Bankman – Fried’s attorneys said he wasn’t going to the Congressional hearing.
Only thing you can do is arrest him.
No problem…just bring him to Congress, in his orange jumpsuit and plastic crocks with out any socks…shackled and handcuffed….escorted by the US Marshalls.
Easy peasey…bulletproof limo…and have Maxine Waters or whoever it was, blow a kiss at him.
Oh and make sure he is wearing a mask….can’t let him catch the ‘Rona….
On a serious note…oh wait…well except for the mask…
the irony of block chain is that it is not secret and quite easy to trace (with some caveats such as mixer “exchanges” used to obfuscate transactions and ownership and ultimate last “deposit”. Noting: even with elaborate mixer technologies, a criminal would have a very very very difficult time accessing any account downstream for any substantial amount of money..and coverting those virtual accounts to actual fiat currency, even more difficult. It’s been estimated there is about 1.4 trillion dollars just sitting in various elaborate mixed accounts, with “owners” understanding that touching it would draw laser like attention from nearly anyone, and not necessarily LE, but major exchanges. The very premise of block chain makes it extremely unlikely any shenanigans will go unnoticed).
the point of this post? regardless if the DOJ and the deep state congress and their whore bed fellows try to tamp down the financial activities of FTX and the so called “missing” funds, this is not going to stop very capable fund hunters who WILL follow the rabbit hole and publish.
calling elon musk.. You have the platform. You know what to do. you want twitter to be a powerful social media force..this is how you get interest. This is how you create power!
in fact ELON, I dare you to send out a blanket block chain bounty hunter ad. Anyone who can trace 5 Million or more ftx funds in the block chain gets a free tesla!
this is how you create power.
God Bless America
So, if he is convicted of money laundering to effect the election of certain persons, do those elections get nullified?
No?
Well, I guess he’s done his job and has outlived his usefulness.
I doubt SBF is in a cell. This is likely just a ploy by SBF and his collaborators to avoid public scrutiny.
He better figure it out real quick, because The Witch knows a squealer when she see’s one,
… and he just leaped=frogged Assange and Snowden to the top of their list of critical existential liabilities.
Hey Sam, didn’t we tell you to watch “Dead Man Walking”?
And he looks like a very soft soy boy…God help him!
Poor Sam. He had his best basketball shorts and T-shirt laid out next to his comb, all ready to dress up for the congressional hearing. Sad.
Oh I think you win this discussion!
All evidence verbal or documentary is now unavailable due to the ongoing investigation.
Fried Bank Man can now look forward to the temporary suspension of his applicable license violation, with credit for time served.
I’m sure the security cameras have been checked and are working properly.