In a current interview with CoinDesk, Minnesota Consultant and Home Whip Tom Emmer boldly declared that the Securities and Change Fee didn’t do its job, referring to the collapse of FTX. “What was [SEC Chair] Gary Gensler and firm actually doing?” Emmer inquired.
Besides in March, months earlier than the FTX meltdown in November, Emmer and 7 different congressmen (they’re referred to as ‘The Blockchain Eight’) despatched in a bipartisan letter to Gensler to ask for some readability on the company’s casual information-seeking course of into the processes of “non-public corporations associated to cryptocurrency and blockchain” together with FTX.
He was very pleased with it, too.
Lately, the “Crypto King of Congress” refers to FTX’s disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried as a “criminal” who turned crypto “again a few chapters.” Within the interview, Emmer tried his greatest to emphasise that Bankman-Fried was a fraud and fraudster, and the issue was by no means crypto.
Enjoyable truth: he was additionally one of many three members of congress who obtained marketing campaign donations from FTX.
The American Prospect discovered that 5 of the Blockchain Eight additionally obtained marketing campaign donations not from FTX however from its staff, with quantities starting from $2,900 to $11,600. Additionally they discovered that Consultant Ted Budd, a member of the Eight, “obtained half one million {dollars} in assist from a Tremendous PAC created by FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame.”
After which one other enjoyable truth: the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee, the marketing campaign arm for Home Republicans, obtained $2.75 million from FTX within the 2022 election cycle. Now, are you able to guess who’s the chairman of that committee?
