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The S.B.F. Campaign Finance Whodunnit, Part 2

Further news and notes on the Sean McElwee-S.B.F. saga, and the campaign-finance scandal of the moment.

Sam Bankman-Fried
S.B.F. world has been rife with speculation about who else was implicated in what federal prosectors alleged, in vague terms, was some sort of “straw-donor violation.” Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
December 22, 2022

Last week, in the days after Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas, I noted a blind item in my column about his indictment, which included a mysterious, unexpected campaign-finance violation. “While it would be irresponsible at this point to name specific names,” I wrote, “there is certainly some chatter about various S.B.F.-connected, not-that-rich individuals who cut an unusually large number of political checks in recent years.”