by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
LITERARY SDNY, Oct 18 -- Eighteenth day of October and via SDNY staffers who were somehow deemed experts in social media SBF's DC sleaze came in. There was also a former FTX lobbyist, who claimed not to have known that everything Sam said was a lie.
Here was Sam on Twitter thanking Maxine Waters for providing him a platform. Here he was in person fielding or using questions from Tommy Tuberville. Here again was the funding to Joe Manchin.
Boozman, it turned out, had been a key. They funneled him dark money, and called him important to FTX. Well, he had a bill about crypto.
Here in another email was Barbara Fried poking Sam to get Nishad to give her a million dollars in FTX customers' funds - he did - for MTG. No it was not Marjorie Taylor Green but rather Mind the Gap.
Here was the deed of the Fried and Bankman $16 million house in the Bahamas. To question any of this, she'd told The New Yorker, was McCarthyite. And she came to the courtroom each day, put her head in her hands. It could get worse
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