Two months before the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried walked into a restaurant in Washington, D.C.’s Wharf neighborhood for a meeting with Mitch McConnell. They both wanted to be there, of course. McConnell was in the final sprint of fundraising for the 2022 midterms, in which Republicans had found themselves outgunned in the Senate. And S.B.F., seeking a more sympathetic ear for his financial and personal pet projects, was pivoting that autumn, hard, to the right.
S.B.F.’s McConnell Money Tickle, Part 2
Theodore Schleifer
September 26, 2023
