Good evening. It's Thursday, February 23rd.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update.

Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday

at 7 PM Eastern, exclusively here on Rumbull,

the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, the Justice Department has issued a superseding indictment

of Sam Bankman Freed, the disgrace founder

of what the government now alleges was essentially a Ponzi scheme.

The crypto exchange firm FTX.

This new DOJ document shed significant light on the actions of Bankman Freed and

his closest associates, some of whom are

are still unnamed but whose identity as liberal political

strategists is basically an open secret in Washington. But this

document sheds even more considerable light on how Washington really functions,

how easily the media is manipulated and how money converts Washington politicians into mindless

puppets willing to defend positions completely at odds

with their claimed ideology and lifelong worldview and we'll look at examples

highly of lustrative ones of each. Then for an interview segment we have a very special

guest with us right here with us in our studio, not mediated through a screen

but personally, physically in our studio,

Lee Fong, who is one of the best hires

I ever advocated for at The Intercept.

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