Rep. Kevin Hern speaks during a House Small Business Committee proceeding connected July 17, 2020. | Erin Scott/Pool via AP Photo
The FTX ungraded is prompting lawmakers from some parties to symbolically springiness up run contributions from the crypto exchange’s apical executives, underscoring the firm’s governmental toxicity successful the aftermath of its collapse.
Campaigns for Reps. Chuy García (D-Ill.) and Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) person fixed section charities wealth adjacent to the magnitude they received from FTX leaders, according to their spokespeople.
FTX executives contributed to dozens of lawmakers successful the run-up to the 2022 midterms. FTX filed for bankruptcy past week and is present facing a raft of investigations, with increasing scrutiny astir however it handled lawsuit funds.
García’s run donated $2,900 to the Northwest Center successful Chicago, which focuses connected fiscal literacy, matching the magnitude that had been donated to his run by erstwhile FTX CEO and laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried.
Hern gave $5,000 to Food connected the Move, a section nutrient slope successful Oklahoma, which equals the magnitude fixed to Hern Victory Fund by the co-CEO of FTX’s integer markets arm, Ryan Salame.
Bankman-Fried was among the astir important donors to Democrats during the cycle, distributing much than $40 cardinal done nonstop contributions and ace PACs. Salame gave astir $24 cardinal to Republicans.
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