A writer’s workshop in Alaska. Food banks in California. A charity that fights diabetes.These groups are the unintended recipients of donations from onetime wunderkind Samuel Bankman-Fried. He had sent them to United States lawmakers who now can’t move fast enough to offload the contributions from the disgraced crypto mogul to anywhere else but their own campaign coffers.Before his arrest in the Bahamas this week, Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was a prolific political donor to individual candidates – from local campaigns all the way up to President Joe Biden – as well as large political action committees, or PACs, which can wield outsized influence in campaigns. But in a matter of days, Bankman-Fried became a pariah facing charges of massive financial fraud and decades in prison.
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