Not only was SBF NOT debanked, he was provided unprecedented access to Congress and U.S. regulators, despite being the CEO of an offshore exchange.
He met with @GaryGensler AT LEAST twice. He met with the Chairman of the @CFTC. He had a personal meeting with the Chairwoman of the @FSCDems@RepMaxineWaters, who blew SBF a kiss because she was so smitten with him (or his 💰I should say).
SBF TESTI-LIED before Congress. He had access to the Senate Banking Committee as well as the White House.
That kind of access cost him $72M in political donations to Democrats plus $10M to the current Administration. At SBF’s trial, testimony was provided that showed when SBF was asked by Caroline Ellison what’s the $10M for, SBF replied “to gain access.” And boy did he get it.
SBF’s dad is Joe Bankman, who wrote @ewarren’s tax policy when she ran for president. SBF’s mom is Barbara Fried. She runs Mind the Gap - a super pac dedicated to electing progressives.
Why was SBF’s campaign finance fraud case dismissed?
Why haven’t SBF’s parents faced criminal charges? They received $10M in stolen FTX customer funds and had tens of millions of dollars in Bahamian luxury real estate in their names, paid with stolen customer funds?
Don’t forget, during the same time Gensler was meeting with SBF, @brian_armstrong@iampaulgrewal and @coinbase were told Gensler would not meet with them and that the SEC would not be taking Crypto meetings. 🤔
Why would Gensler agree to meet with the CEO of an offshore exchange but not meet with the CEO of America’s largest exchange?
There was a rumor going around that Gensler was close to cutting a deal with SBF that would grant FTX a regulatory advantage.
Gensler is 💯 a bad person. He lied before Congress multiple times. He lied about not knowing how to set up his work email at home and that’s why he used a private email while at the CFTC. This crook was the youngest partner in Goldman Sachs history, taught Blockchain at MIT, but couldn’t “figure out” his work email? Give me a frickin break!
He lied for @ewarren and testified-lied exactly how she told him to and said the “only” use case for Bitcoin and crypto assets is for criminals.
At MIT he said XRP and ETH needed regulatory clarity from the SEC and then testi-lied before Congress and said the rules were crystal clear.
He was Hilary Clinton’s CFO and would’ve been the person responsible for approving the payment for the Steele Dossier related to Russia and @realDonaldTrump. Yet, he testified-lied and said he had no idea that it was paid for by the campaign. Think about that: A SEVEN FIGURE PAYMENT is made by the Hilary Clinton Campaign but the Chief Financial Officer knows nothing about it.
Gary Gensler is a criminal. Period.
One way to end all the speculation and rumors related to SBF is to release all correspondence and meeting notes related to him.
@realDonaldTrump@elonmusk@VivekGRamaswamy please assign me to lead the investigation into this and/or Chokepoint 2.0. I’ll do it for free and save the taxpayers money.
The SEC asked for $2B, and the Court reduced their demand by ~94% recognizing that they had overplayed their hand. We respect the Court’s decision and have clarity to continue growing our company.
This is a victory for Ripple, the industry and the rule of law. The SEC’s headwinds against the whole of the XRP community are gone.
Senator, no one recruited me and I’m looking forward to a substantive discussion on the issues that are important to the good people of Massachusetts, like income inequality, inflation, housing costs, illegal immigration, the debt crisis, and veterans’ services.
Senator, are you going to recuse yourself from participating in any hearing involving @GaryGensler considering you violated your oath and duty by not providing oversight of the @SECGov when you gave Gensler both the questions and suggested answers to your questions?
#shame
This video has been viewed 228K times but we need it seen 500K times. @SenJackReed you are on the Financial Services Committee and I’m bringing tens of thousands of people with me to ask you to ask for an investigation.
Hi Tony! Exciting talk. Here are three simple questions the Greater Crypto community, and Americans, would like to know from Mr. Kaplan of @PrometheumInc:
1. Did you purchase/do you own KillTrump.eth?
2. What’s your relationship with Wang Dongfeng and Longling Capital?
3. How reliant is Prometheum on CCP entities like Wanxiang?
If people haven’t figured it out by now, let me help you: the speech was a pure money grab - nothing more, nothing less.
Whether you believe in #ETH or whether Ethereum is a great technology or ecosystem, is not the point. As I’ve said before, had the @SECGov sued @ethereum@Consensys@ethereumJoseph & @VitalikButerin, alleging #ETH was a security, instead of @Ripple@bgarlinghouse & @chrislarsensf, I would’ve sued the SEC just like I did over #XRP.
Prior to the speech being given, the SEC 💯 refused to discuss any particular crypto token. Since the speech, the SEC has 💯 refused to discuss any particular crypto token, including #ETH. Why hasn’t there been an investigation? Here’s an explanation:
History books will discuss this era as the Corruption Era. An era when Congress exempts itself from insider trading laws so that members of Congress, recently briefed about a pandemic and a government shutdown, can use that non-public information and cash out of the stock market before it crashes, making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An era when the Speaker of the House presents a Bill on the House floor favoring credit cards companies, like Visa, and then shortly thereafter, the Speaker and her husband are offered millions in Pre-IPO shares of Visa, not offered to the public, making millions of dollars.
An era when the Vice President of the United States uses his office and position to secure millions of dollars for his son and his family, but deny it to the American people when running for President.
An era when the President of the United States has foreign governments and foreign nationals intentionally staying at his resorts and hotels, making sure he knows it, in the hopes of securing favors in the future.
An era when the Secretary of State has a foundation that accepts donations and money from foreign countries and foreign nationals while she is Secretary of State, and meeting those donors in her official capacity for the United States.
An era when the Chairman of the FDA literally leaves his government post and shortly thereafter is named on Board of Pfizer.
The same era that the son-in-law of the President gets a loan for hundreds of millions of dollars from Apollo Group and shortly thereafter, the SEC Chair drops an investigation into Apollo Group, and then afterwords, that same SEC Chairman resigns from the SEC, but is immediately appointed as an advisor or board member to Apollo Group.
An era so ripe with corruption, the CEO of an offshore exchange, and the son of Democratic operatives, donates tens of millions of dollars to the incumbent administration for the purposes of access to regulators, and after those donations, he gets private meetings with the Chairman of the SEC, the Chairman of the CFTC, and members of Congress.
Because this era is marked with such a blatant disregard for conflicts of interests or appearances of improprieties, a Director of Corporation Finance wouldn’t hesitate to give a speech providing a massive regulatory advantage for the same people literally paying him. He wouldn’t hesitate to allow those same people to help write the speech. Nor would he hesitate to go work for those same folks after giving the speech.
And because this speech occurred during the Corruption Era, MSM and others, don’t bat an eye.
Why would they? It’s the Corruption Era. It’s expected. It’s the era of “Get yours, while you can.”
Meanwhile, at the Supreme Court today:
“I would think that the uniquely 21st Century phenomenon of crypto currency would have been addressed by Congress. And I certainly would have thought that would have been true in the wake of the FTX debacle. But it hasn't happened. Why hasn't it happened? Because there's an agency head out there that thinks that he already has the authority to address this uniquely 21st Century problem with a couple of statutes passed in the 1930s.
And he's going to wave his wand and he's going to say the words "investment contract" are ambiguous, and that's going to suck all of this into my regulatory ambit, even though that same person, when he was a professor, said this is probably a job for the CFTC.”
@metaman This transaction moved over $6 million worth of ETH. Where did that ETH come from? Where's the transaction that explains it?
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It’s All Controlled & Concentrated : A few players control the vast majority of Ether AND have similar control over all of crypto including the vast majority of rug pulls, fraudulent ICOs & exploits. The whole game is rigged & controlled by these few. The rest are on the payroll or benefit by keeping the charade ongoing.
Tip-Off Term: Whenever they use the terms decentralization it’s safe to assume they are engaging in a centralized fraud.
Cons: They carefully crafted images of Vitalik & Lubin as crypto saviors. My iNFT recording unmasked these “geniuses” as idiots for all to hear. I made good on that promise. Next we will unveil data to show these “altruists” were criminals on a magnitude that is unprecedented.
Silence: Still not a single shred of evidence that my allegations are untrue. Think that’s normal if they were untrue? No, it’s not normal because they are true.
False Altruist: For someone who doesn’t care about money Vitalik sure makes shrewd financial decisions. Of course if you control the market your decisions become shrewd by default.
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Without Jay Clayton’s self-serving tenure at the SEC, Gensler would not have been able to arbitrarily and capriciously deny a Spot ETF. He was 💯 wrong to block the ETF. Remember as well: Clayton met with Gensler the day before he filed the @Ripple/#XRP case, claiming all #XRP constituted illegal securities. If you don’t believe the Ripple XRP case was the main topic of discussion (Clayton left the SEC the following day), I have a bridge for sale. After refusing to implement a Safe Harbor proposed by @HesterPeirce, and after making sure he kept the regulatory status of #Bitcoin and crypto vague, Clayton went on to “advise” #OneRiver and others, related, of course, to #BTC #ETH & Crypto policy in general. Pretty damn good business model - for Clayton and his cronies that is.
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