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Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Let's quickly talk about this FTX founder. Sam Bankman freed. He was arrested in the

0:05.1

Bahamas last night. Interesting. He was supposed to testify today. And then he got picked

0:12.3

up last night before he could do that in front of the US House, right? We gave a whole

0:16.5

bunch of money to who we helped fund most of their re elections. Yeah. Yeah. Here is

0:22.8

the question. I have multiple questions on this. And you know me, Casey, I realized by

0:29.2

asking this, I'm going to be called a radical right wing democracy hating semi fascist.

0:36.0

But the timing on the arrest, right hours before he's supposed to appear in front of the US

0:41.3

House of Representatives to talk about what's going on as it relates to this little criminal

0:48.3

empire that he was overseeing over there. And hey, you know, some logical questions like

0:53.2

how much money did Ukraine invest with you? Where did that money come from? What did you

0:59.2

do with the money? How did a little goober like you give whatever it was $50 million?

1:04.5

Why did you give it all the Democrats? Right before he's going to have to answer those

1:07.9

questions, well, what do you know? Now he's arrested and they, I guess, not testifying.

1:11.5

Yeah. The United States is pursuing criminal charges against him. The Bahamas also pursuing

1:18.0

regulatory and criminal investigation. It's got to be pretty bad if the Bahamas is getting

1:21.7

involved, right? I'm excited. Isn't that the premise of the Bahamas is you do as you

1:25.9

see fit over here? Right. Well, we do have that, you know, extradition agreement with them.

1:31.0

The federal government is pursuing wire and bank fraud charges against Sam Bigman freed.

1:36.7

He could face life in prison without the possibility of release. But they shut him up just

1:43.5

in time by arresting him. They're kind of saving him.

1:49.3

Well, and it'll be interesting too. Does he get the Bernie Madoff treatment where we're

1:53.6

going to parry you and you get a life sentence because typical white collar crimes usually

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