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There's been a flood of temp accounts posting political comments today. This one is 8 minutes old at time of posting. There were 3 or 4 accounts earlier today posting about Assange and "anti-Russian Nazi propaganda" and defending the imprisonment of Navalny, most of which were either created in the past 24 hours or have posted exclusively about those topics since their creation. Interesting.
"An amended indictment accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of directing two FTX executives to evade contribution limits by donating to Democrats and Republicans, and to conceal where the money came from." Here is the amended indictment. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59... "9. As noted above, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money t…
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>"9. As noted above, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money to help fund over $100 million in political contributions "
I think there should be an exception specificity for political donations where the recipient is just as much in trouble for an illegal donation as the party sending it.
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Called a right in the US, but when it happens somewhere else, particularly in developing nations, it's called bribery and the govt and politicians called corrupt.
No the two are seperate concerns. Lobbying/donations are a fundamental part of governance in almost all countries. Bribery is illegal in almost all countries but enforcement is mixed.
You give someone with political power money in order to buy their support and/or influence the way they spend government money/efforts. That's what bribery is. That's what lobbying is.
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Most of the recipients have already pledged to donate the money. Some have already done so.
It's not their money to donate, stolen proceeds belong to the victims. They should've given it back to FTX. Additionally, money is fungible, so the politicians can't claim the money is "gone" after being donated, since presumably they're not bankrupt and have other money FTX can claw back.
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This is an incredibly disingenuous post. Soros called 1944 the happiest year of his life because he witnessed his father's bravery in saving other Jews.
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"An amended indictment accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of directing two FTX executives to evade contribution limits by donating to Democrats and Republicans, and to conceal where the money came from." Here is the amended indictment. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59... "9. As noted above, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money t…
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No the two are seperate concerns. Lobbying/donations are a fundamental part of governance in almost all countries. Bribery is illegal in almost all countries but enforcement is mixed.
That's the illusion you've been sold. Semantics. You give someone with political power money in order to buy their support and/or influence the way they spend government money/efforts. That's what bribery is. That's what lobbying is.
That technically would be lobbying but you define that was also bribery.