FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, left, arrives at Manhattan federal court, Thursday, Feb.16, 2023, in New York. The FTX founder returned to a New York courtroom for the second time in two weeks to explain why he keeps accessing parts of the internet that the government can’t monitor and how it might affect his bail. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York on Thursday filed a superseding indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, detailing the FTX founder’s alleged schemes to make illegal campaign contributions and defraud banks before and during the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange.
According to the new indictment, which is triple the length of the indictment filed against Bankman-Fried in December and adds several new charges, Bankman-Fried sought to “acquire bipartisan influence” through a political donation scheme involving at least two unnamed FTX executives and tens of millions of dollars.
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