An FTX Executive Who Broke With the Others
Ryan Salame, who pleaded guilty to two charges last week, was known as a “budding Republican mega-donor.”
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Sam Bankman-Fried won people over through his reputation as a civically minded progressive. Last week, an FTX executive who cut a different figure—that of a “budding Republican mega-donor”—pleaded guilty to two charges ahead of his former boss’s trial.
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A Contrasting Figure
Last May, Sam Bankman-Fried said that he could spend up to a billion dollars supporting candidates and causes through the 2024 presidential election. He later , calling it “a dumb quote,” but the suggestion, and the flurry of
