FTX Asks Politicians Who Received Sam Bankman-Fried Donations to Return Money

The announcement escalates a fight over as much as $93 million (according to the debtors’ estimates) in political donations FTX made to an array of Washington, D.C., lawmakers and causes across the political spectrum. One in three members of the current Congress received contributions from Bankman-Fried’s orbit, according to CoinDesk reporting. It was a monumental influence campaign that crossed party lines.