re: Sam Bankman-Fried begs Bahamas judge for bail because he's vegan and too 'depressed'

His Parents run a Democrat PAC in the Bay area. They are responsible for funneling millions to the DNC ( outside of FTXs donations )

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Bankman-Fried’s mother Barbara, meanwhile, cultivated extensive progressive political connections through her Democratic PAC Mind the Gap, which routed millions of dollars from Silicon Valley donors to Democratic campaigns, pledging to spend as much as $140 million in the 2020 election cycle.

The group reportedly attracted wealthy donors by pledging to use statistical modeling to effectively leverage their contributions to elect the maximum number of candidates, an approach one donor called “the moneyball of politics,” according to an expose in Vox. Major donors include Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and a host of other Silicon Valley heavy-hitters, including Human Rights Watch co-chairwoman Amy Rao.

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Bankman-Fried is largely believed to have used his mother’s political connections — and those he cultivated himself through his own PAC — to enlist support for his crypto lobbying campaign in Washington, D.C. During Tuesday’s hearing, several Republican lawmakers expressed alarm at the degree of influence Bankman-Fried was able to attain in D.C. in just a few short years of lobbying work, which focused on ensuring that the crypto industry would be regulated in a way that benefitted his firm.

Barbara Bankman-Fried has since stepped down from her leadership role at Mind the Gap as she and her husband brace for the legal fallout their family is facing, which they expect will decimate their finances, sources close to the family told the Wall Street Journal.

While at Stanford, the pair were often immersed in a campus culture of philosophical and ethics debates, Puck News reported, making it an ironic twist of fate that their child is now embroiled in a fraud debacle of epic proportions.

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