Dems’ 2nd-Largest Donor Charged With Making Tens of Millions Dollars in Illegal Campaign Donations

The Democratic Party’s second-biggest donor has been accused of making illegal campaign donations totaling tens of millions of dollars. On Tuesday, prosecutors charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with a plethora of financial crimes related to an alleged scheme to defraud FTX stakeholders, The Associated Press reported. According to Open Secrets, Bankman-Fried donated just under $1 million to candidates during the 2022 election cycle in addition to $38.8 million to “outside groups,” making him the Democrats’ second-largest donor in the 2022 election cycle behind only billionaire mega-donor George Soros. Bankman-Fried and two of his FTX associates, co-CEO Ryan Salame and director of…