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FTX + Ukraine = Money Laundering?

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FTX + Ukraine = Money Laundering?

Mark Wauck
Nov 13, 2022
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The details are beyond me, but the concept seems pretty simple. The legislature of a powerful government—call it ‘the US Congress’—authorizes payment of tens of billions of dollars to the Ukrainian government to help them fight Russia. Ukraine skims at least some of that money—remember, it’s tens of billions—and sends the skim to FTX, which is already active sending bitcoin to Ukraine. FTX, through its founder Sam Blankman-Fried, then becomes a major donor (second only to George Soros) to the dominant political party of that powerful foreign government (call the party ‘Dems’) that supported Ukraine. That’s a pretty tight, circular flow of money, and it’s popularly known as a kickback.

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Here’s the tweet that lays this out, although I’ve seen no other confirmation—click on the attachment to read the full thing:

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SARAH CONNOR @LibertyBelleNws
@AlexBerenson
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9:20 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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As I said, I haven’t seen confirmation. There are some circumstantial connections, however—beyond Ukraine being the most corrupt government on earth and the Dems, which long corrupt ties to Ukraine, being the most corrupt political party on earth:

Twitter avatar for @TFL1728
Tom Luongo (Give Deflation a Chance!) @TFL1728
Don't get sucked into the Occam's Razor argument that this #FTX thing is just a bunch of corrupt Millennial morons. This thing screams of DNC/RNC corruption esp. as it pertains to Ukraine. Where'd all this money come from to lever up 10x?
zerohedge.comFTX Held Just $900MM In Liquid Assets Vs $9BN In Liabilities As Video Emerges Confirming Alameda Knew It Was Pilfering Client FundsThe prison sentence better be in the decades...
9:01 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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Now, that Zerohedge article (linked in Luongo’s tweet) provides a lot more detail on FTX related financial shenanigans than I can digest. Whether or not FTX was a total fraud isn’t the important question for our purposes. The important question is, Where did FTX get all that money that FTX founder Sam Blankman-Fried sent to the Dem campaigns?

What we know is:

USG $$$ —> Ukraine,

[FTX active in Ukraine], then:

FTX $$$ ($40 million) —> Dems.

It’s the middle part that we need to see. The only question is, How much was done to disguise the money flow?

Here’s the conclusion to the long Zerohedge story. In the preceding paragraph Zerohedge has just observed that the FTX principals declined to comment to the WSJ:

Of course, it's not like they have anything to say that we don't already know. Well, we take that back. Considering that FTX was instrumental in laundering bitcoin into Ukraine....

Twitter avatar for @zerohedge
zerohedge @zerohedge
will be very interesting to go through all of these fund flows as part of discovery.
coindesk.comUkraine Partners With FTX, Everstake to Launch New Crypto Donation WebsiteFTX is converting crypto contributions to Ukraine’s war effort into fiat for deposit at the National Bank of Ukraine.
2:05 AM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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... we do wonder just how much crypto money-laundering between the US and Ukraine will emerge as a result of the bankruptcy discovery, and how long until we can safely claim that "Sam Bankman didn't fry himself"?

When confronted with highly suggestive circumstantial evidence any competent investigator starts coming up with plausible scenarios (call them ‘surmises’ or ‘theories’) that would tie it all together. Then he starts digging.

Gonna be a lotta people digging.

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AmericanCardigan
Nov 14, 2022

Can't wait to see how cocaine Mitch reacts publicly as he is a war hawk along with Lindsey. Taxpayer money going to fund the Dem party is a disgrace.

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Steghorn21
Nov 14, 2022·edited Nov 14, 2022

I'm sure this will bring down the whole Dem machine. Just like Russiagate, Seth Rich, Hunterand the 2020 election steal did. The DS really doesn't care about any of this. Now we can all start getting excited over 2024 and how a GOP Potus is going to make everything better.

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