Conveniently though, some crypto's like Bitcoin might offer a way to track this illegal money laundering, alleged of course. Much easier than if they were using the old FRN's or some crappy artwork and book deals.
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Conveniently though, some crypto's like Bitcoin might offer a way to track this illegal money laundering, alleged of course. Much easier than if they were using the old FRN's or some crappy artwork and book deals.
If, as reported, SBF had a back door to get money out of FTX why wouldn’t it be unthinkable that there were not other back doors for other nefarious purposes?
There has been over $60 Billion dollars from the US sent to Ukraine for "Aid".
Feel free to give us a full accounting as to how NONE of that ended up in politicians pockets. We already "knew" that was happening we just didn't have a plausible path. You'd be a fool to not see the Huge potential money laundering here.
Feel free to give us a full accounting as to how NONE of that ended up in politicians pockets. We already "knew" that was happening we just didn't have a plausible path. You'd be a fool to not see the Huge potential money laundering here.
cheka
Ground Beetle
everybody knows what (they) say on CNN/NYT. that's why we dont post their claims. instead, we look beyond the cover story - in an attempt to get to the real story, if it exists
i think this mindset has caused a bit of conflict that needn't be. we know the official story -- we are out to disprove it. if their official story stands up, it has earned it
sometimes we demolish their claims, other times we dont. i hope this helps you understand where we are coming from. gathering evidence/theories is part of the process of sussing out the truth/educated guess. without that process one is left misinformed and often dumbfounded when their 'truth' makes them look like a fool
cheka
Ground Beetle
they already got caught. guessing that they're still doing it is prudent while tens of billions of our money is disappearing into a black hole
insert any of many (media) stories here -- those that flat-out admit that 'nobody' knows where all of those billions have gone
but we do have an inkling where some of it has gone
Which one got caught? Might have missed that story. Besides the untold numbers of Arms that just get lost and resold or whatever.
cheka
Ground Beetle
cheka
Ground Beetle
wtf?
www.science.org
Science | AAAS
Crypto company's collapse strands scientists
Foundations supported by FTX committed hundreds of millions of dollars to research on climate, biodefense, and AI ethics
cheka
Ground Beetle
seeing some claims online that ftx funded an ivermectin study that said it didnt work
cheka
Ground Beetle
cheka
Ground Beetle
i havent watched this
wtf?
Science | AAAS
Crypto company's collapse strands scientists
Foundations supported by FTX committed hundreds of millions of dollars to research on climate, biodefense, and AI ethics
Lol, because Science... This guy was just a BG wanna be.
Then why post it?
cheka
Ground Beetle
ftx and ivermectin
cheka
Ground Beetle
pmbug members might like to watch it - there seems to be a lot of interest in this story
i'm going to watch it when i get time
cheka
Ground Beetle
i clipped a few things out of a long article that is really good
note the money movement re ukraine
www.themainewire.com
In 2020, SBF gave $5.2 million to President Joe Biden’s campaign, but his political spending was then only just getting started. SBF created the main vehicle for his political spending in 2022: Protect Our Future PAC. That PAC raised $28.4 million and spent all most all of it on Democratic primaries and the general election.
According to reporting from Coin Desk, the Ukrainian government partnered with FTX to help convert cryptocurrency “donations” into arms and war supplies. According to some estimates, between FTX and the National Bank of Ukraine facilitated the flow of up to $100 million worth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency for the war effort. Ukrainian officials have refuted the allegation that anything nefarious happened with FTX, but that’s pretty much meaningless. As far as I’m concerned, it’s only smoke around the potential fire.
......he gave much more money to Democrats after the partnership with Ukraine than he did before. In 2021 and in the first part of 2022 (prior to the partnership with Ukraine in March of 2022), SBF had given $11.7 million to political candidates, according to FEC records. After March 15, 2022, the date when Coindesk first reported the partnership with Ukraine, SBF gives another $22.4 million to politicians and political committees. In May, two months after the start of FTX’s Ukrainian partnership, SBF tells a podcaster that his “soft ceiling” for political spending on left-wing causes is $1,000,000,000. Regardless of what you think about the conspiracy theory, it’s clear that SBF donated far more money after the Ukrainian partnership and floated the idea of donating enormous sums – after the Ukrainian partnership.
note the money movement re ukraine
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Collapse Touches Ukraine, the World Economic Forum, Silicon Valley and Both Sides of D.C. - The Maine Wire
The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's is connected to Ukraine, COVID-19, the World Economic Frum, and powerful politicians. Will he go to jail?
www.themainewire.com
In 2020, SBF gave $5.2 million to President Joe Biden’s campaign, but his political spending was then only just getting started. SBF created the main vehicle for his political spending in 2022: Protect Our Future PAC. That PAC raised $28.4 million and spent all most all of it on Democratic primaries and the general election.
According to reporting from Coin Desk, the Ukrainian government partnered with FTX to help convert cryptocurrency “donations” into arms and war supplies. According to some estimates, between FTX and the National Bank of Ukraine facilitated the flow of up to $100 million worth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency for the war effort. Ukrainian officials have refuted the allegation that anything nefarious happened with FTX, but that’s pretty much meaningless. As far as I’m concerned, it’s only smoke around the potential fire.
......he gave much more money to Democrats after the partnership with Ukraine than he did before. In 2021 and in the first part of 2022 (prior to the partnership with Ukraine in March of 2022), SBF had given $11.7 million to political candidates, according to FEC records. After March 15, 2022, the date when Coindesk first reported the partnership with Ukraine, SBF gives another $22.4 million to politicians and political committees. In May, two months after the start of FTX’s Ukrainian partnership, SBF tells a podcaster that his “soft ceiling” for political spending on left-wing causes is $1,000,000,000. Regardless of what you think about the conspiracy theory, it’s clear that SBF donated far more money after the Ukrainian partnership and floated the idea of donating enormous sums – after the Ukrainian partnership.
i clipped a few things out of a long article that is really good
note the money movement re ukraine
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Collapse Touches Ukraine, the World Economic Forum, Silicon Valley and Both Sides of D.C. - The Maine Wire
The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's is connected to Ukraine, COVID-19, the World Economic Frum, and powerful politicians. Will he go to jail?
In 2020, SBF gave $5.2 million to President Joe Biden’s campaign, but his political spending was then only just getting started. SBF created the main vehicle for his political spending in 2022: Protect Our Future PAC. That PAC raised $28.4 million and spent all most all of it on Democratic primaries and the general election.
According to reporting from Coin Desk, the Ukrainian government partnered with FTX to help convert cryptocurrency “donations” into arms and war supplies. According to some estimates, between FTX and the National Bank of Ukraine facilitated the flow of up to $100 million worth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency for the war effort. Ukrainian officials have refuted the allegation that anything nefarious happened with FTX, but that’s pretty much meaningless. As far as I’m concerned, it’s only smoke around the potential fire.
......he gave much more money to Democrats after the partnership with Ukraine than he did before. In 2021 and in the first part of 2022 (prior to the partnership with Ukraine in March of 2022), SBF had given $11.7 million to political candidates, according to FEC records. After March 15, 2022, the date when Coindesk first reported the partnership with Ukraine, SBF gives another $22.4 million to politicians and political committees. In May, two months after the start of FTX’s Ukrainian partnership, SBF tells a podcaster that his “soft ceiling” for political spending on left-wing causes is $1,000,000,000. Regardless of what you think about the conspiracy theory, it’s clear that SBF donated far more money after the Ukrainian partnership and floated the idea of donating enormous sums – after the Ukrainian partnership.
The biggest Red Flag / question that I have is where did all the SEED money for FTX come from. It was just founded like 3 years ago and suddenly it's a $10 Billion ponzi scheme? They still had to have massive up front funding and tech departments, etc. Follow that money and you'll find some real answers.
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Supposedly he made $100,000 per day on arbitrage buying Bitcoin for $10,000 and selling it in Japan for $11,000.
Arbitrage is a short term play not a business model. If SBF was making such profits with little barrier to entry then SBF would be facing dozens of competitors doing the same thing Eventually there would be no profit.
As @Voodoo inquired, why did so much money flow into a relative newcomer exchange, with no track record, so soon?
What will be interesting is who will be listed as creditors in the bankruptcy filings. What will be more telling is whose names will not be listed in those documents because they would rather take a full loss than be outed.
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BOMBSHELL REPORT: FTX Balance Sheet Contained Investment Called “TRUMPLOSE”
By Anthony ScottPublished November 15, 2022
FTX’s collapse is one of the biggest financial scandals in the 21st century.
As reported by the Gateway Pundit earlier, “tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency.”
Now the Financial Times has been able to obtain a balance sheet of FTX and its contents are absolutely dark.
The balance sheet revealed FTX had only “$900mn of assets it could easily sell, despite having $9bn of liabilities.”
One of the most shocking revelations is that the balance sheet listed a $7 million dollar asset called “TRUMPLOSE”.
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BOMBSHELL REPORT: FTX Balance Sheet Contained Investment Called "TRUMPLOSE" | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott
FTX’s collapse is one of the biggest financial scandals in the 21st century.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
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"Proof" as requested...
Published November 15, 2022
The CEO of now-bankrupt FTX admitted that FTX was nothing more than a laundromat for the Ukrainian government.
TGP reported earlier that the now-bankrupt FTX was transferring money to Ukraine and then laundering money back from Ukraine to the Democrat party.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried donated $38 million to Democrats this year.
Mitch McConnell took funding from FTX for his Senate Leadership Fund.
FTX donated $2.5 million to the Republican Senate Leadership Fund.
It’s listed on Open Secrets.
Mitch McConnell was paid handsomely for his lack of leadership.
Liberty Daily reported:
Hat Tip Andrew
www.thegatewaypundit.com
Dirty Mitch Was on the Take… McConnell Received $2.5 Million from Crypto Laundromat FTX for His Senate Leadership Fund
By Jim HoftPublished November 15, 2022
The CEO of now-bankrupt FTX admitted that FTX was nothing more than a laundromat for the Ukrainian government.
TGP reported earlier that the now-bankrupt FTX was transferring money to Ukraine and then laundering money back from Ukraine to the Democrat party.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried donated $38 million to Democrats this year.
Mitch McConnell took funding from FTX for his Senate Leadership Fund.
FTX donated $2.5 million to the Republican Senate Leadership Fund.
It’s listed on Open Secrets.
Mitch McConnell was paid handsomely for his lack of leadership.
Liberty Daily reported:
Wouldn’t you know Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would have his hands in the massive cookie jar in Ukraine and the FTX debacle. Of course he is. It seems more and more that the only person who wasn’t on the take was Donald Trump, which may be why they worked so hard to get rid of him.
Documents show McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund received $2,500,000 from someone at FTX, the crypto company that fell in disgrace last week.
The money goes from taxpayers, is sent as “aid” to Ukraine, which gives a good chunk of the laundered money to FTX, which contributes to the Uniparty Swamp. This prompts the Uniparty Swamp to repeat the process, and as we’ve seen over the past several months, it’s working wonders. Corporate media barely reports on all the money getting laundered there on a weekly basis. No Democrats and very few Republican politicians bring up the issue. Nearly everyone is on the take.
Hat Tip Andrew
Dirty Mitch Was on the Take... McConnell Received $2.5 Million from Crypto Laundromat FTX for His Senate Leadership Fund | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Mitch McConnell in Ukraine with President Zelensky between donations.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Proof? Lol. Bonus points to anyone who can find it in TGP's report. Hint: it doesn't exist. Just another example of conflating the crypto donation to Ukraine central bank platform as magically meaning Ukraine sent money to FTX. TGP is either stupid (honest mistake) or deceitful (propagandist).
cheka
Ground Beetle
i posted a list earlier in this thread. it was mostly friends of the communists at frbny -- hedge funds, private equity, etc -- including some of the biggest in the business
i'm still leaning controlled demolition -- it jives with my theory about why crypto ever came to be --- the social credit digital money
cheka
Ground Beetle
there's a picture of the balance sheet at the link i posted earlier hereBOMBSHELL REPORT: FTX Balance Sheet Contained Investment Called “TRUMPLOSE”
By Anthony Scott
Published November 15, 2022
FTX’s collapse is one of the biggest financial scandals in the 21st century.
As reported by the Gateway Pundit earlier, “tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency.”
Now the Financial Times has been able to obtain a balance sheet of FTX and its contents are absolutely dark.
The balance sheet revealed FTX had only “$900mn of assets it could easily sell, despite having $9bn of liabilities.”
One of the most shocking revelations is that the balance sheet listed a $7 million dollar asset called “TRUMPLOSE”.
more
BOMBSHELL REPORT: FTX Balance Sheet Contained Investment Called "TRUMPLOSE" | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott
FTX’s collapse is one of the biggest financial scandals in the 21st century.
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Collapse Touches Ukraine, the World Economic Forum, Silicon Valley and Both Sides of D.C. - The Maine Wire
The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's is connected to Ukraine, COVID-19, the World Economic Frum, and powerful politicians. Will he go to jail?
www.themainewire.com
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It's a race. How about you Prove where our $60 Billion has disappeared. That should be much easier than trying to prove money laundering.
BRAVO ! First "NATURAL" site I've seen not ran by flowering, leftists socialists/ Greenies.Saw this on another site. I always thought naturalnews was out there. DYODD.
BREAKING: Now-collapsed FTX crypto slush fund laundered Ukraine donation money to Democrat candidates to help rig mid-terms – NaturalNews.com
The FTX crypto slush fund run by now-disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried (and his MIT college buddies) laundered money for Ukraine into nearly $40 million worth of campaign donations for Democrats in the 2022 mid-term elections. Over the last year, Joe Biden and the Democrats have pushed through well...www.naturalnews.com
cheka
Ground Beetle
of course they stole money and sent it to (communists) and (communist agendas) like globalist warming, covid/vax fraud, etc
never forget money is FUNGIBLE -- so there's no defense of 'that money' or 'this money'. too, (bankman) commingled all of that sh-t -- customer money, ukraine welfare/kickbacks, hedge fund money, etc, etc
cheka
Ground Beetle
see that gemini and genesis have both halted withdrawals. controlled demolition dominoes continue to fall
And NOTHING has been done about it and WON"T.
You call it "communists" I call them Fabian Socialists / NAZIs / Neo-NAZIs. There is a difference.
so, we're all smarter for this information but we're never gonna have justice from the type of criminal intellect we have today
it's like chasing our own tail and we're stressing out from all this destruction with zero ability to stop any of it
how many criminal conspiracies are we at now? and the only resolution we have is Harvey Weinstein is now known as a rapist of the wife of Governor Greasy
we didn't even get the pleasure of watching that bastard Cosby die in jail...nor hillary hang or ...
it's like chasing our own tail and we're stressing out from all this destruction with zero ability to stop any of it
how many criminal conspiracies are we at now? and the only resolution we have is Harvey Weinstein is now known as a rapist of the wife of Governor Greasy
we didn't even get the pleasure of watching that bastard Cosby die in jail...nor hillary hang or ...
IDK, More and more people around the world are fed up with the elite and .gov. that control them, even WuFlu Chinamens.
Maybe attempted gold confiscation could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Justa WAG
Yeah, certainly agreed. Now, was Bitcoin itself a setup by the Clowns? Or did they just jump on it after they realized the potential of Bitcoins?
FBI working to extradite SBF to USA as legal woes mount for FTX
(Kitco News) - Authorities in the United States and the Bahamas are discussing the possibility of bringing Sam Bankman-Fried to the US for questioning as new legal proceedings against FTX and its former CEO were also launched on Wednesday.
www.kitco.com
From what the talking heads are saying on the Bus. Shows: All the exchanges may be in jeopardy. Base Coin seem to be the one that has the least to fear. All are saying the only safe crypto will be those who mined BitCoin themselves, and keep them off line on USB stick. ( all are above my head. so I don't know what the hell I'm talking about)gb
The knowledgeable have always said the same about crypto as we say about PM's. Not your keys, not your crypto. Or if you don't hold it you don't own it.
When you buy crypto on an exchange like Coinbase, your coins are deposited into a hosted wallet created by the exchange for you. You can keep your coins in that wallet on the exchange, or you can transfer the coin to your own wallet off exchange. When you move crypto off exchange into your own (cold) storage, you have total ownership/control of your coin (you aren't at risk of the exchange blowing up or otherwise stealing your coins).
I think this is going to get really spicy now.
cheka
Ground Beetle
indeed. it's the age old question - coincidence or conspiracy
my favorite technique to discern which-is-which is to analyze the end result. if it benefits (them) and (theirs) conspiracy is the best bet