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Dec 13 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Sam Bankman-Fried (openly) funded the Protect Our Future super PAC. In NY, it backed Josh Lafazan #NY03, Laura Gillen #NY04 and Francis Conole #NY22.
SBF groups spent on Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, too, and endorsed Rep. Ritchie Torres (#NY15) and Max Rose.
cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/…
Bankman-Fried also donated millions to other groups, e.g. Dem-backing Senate Majority PAC. And there was apparently a lot of dark money we don't even know about. But Protect Our Future seems like one where SBF and/or his brother picked who to support.
opensecrets.org/outside-spendi…
At the state level, Bankman-Fried-funded Protect Our Future PAC also spent big on Assembly Member-elect Alex Bores (@AlexBores).

Hard for me to immediately tell how much $$, because the state campaign finance reporting site is bad.
Sam Bankman-Fried and his bro also directly donated to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Adriano Espaillat, Ritchie Torres and Sean Patrick Maloney, plus R. Zimmerman, A. Biaggi, E. Kim, Lafazan, Gillen, Conole and Rose.
Did I miss any?
fec.gov/data/receipts/…
At the state level, SBF hasn't donated directly, but Gabriel Bankman-Fried donated to Assembly Member-elect Alex Bores and Assembly Members Jen Lunsford, Al Stirpe, and Steve Englebright. Image

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