Topline The Federal Election Commission asked the campaign for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) Thursday to clarify who its treasurer is—warning of possible criminal charges—after listing someone in the posi...
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Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty as FTX task force created
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday it had created an FTX Task Force to trace and recover assets of victims of the cryptocurrency exchange firm’s collapse and to handle inves...
Here’s All The Legal Trouble George Santos Faces As He Joins Congress
Topline Incoming Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) arrives on Capitol Hill Tuesday to begin his tenure in the House as he comes under an increasing amount of legal scrutiny, with local, state, federal and n...
The Block: US prosecutors probing Bankman-Fried’s political donations: NY Times
U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking more information about political donations made to Democrat and Republican lawmakers by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and two executives he worked with, accordi...
GOP lawmaker donates FTX exec’s campaign contribution
Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., is the latest member of Congress to donate political funds he received from an FTX executive, distancing himself after the troubled crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy prote...
Crypto-curious Dem on the ballot in hot Maryland primary
A crypto-curious Democrat could take one step closer to Congress this week, when Maryland voters head to the polls for a House primary in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Glenn Ivey, a former Hill staffe...