This information was puzzling when it first emerged – Santos had no clear connection to FTX, and no apparent interest in crypto or any other issues Bankman-Fried feigned concern about. According to Puck News, though, the explanation for the Santos connection is relatively straightforward. Salame’s girlfriend, Michelle Bond, former CEO of the FTX-backed crypto trade group Association for Digital Asset Markets, ran for Congress in 2022 as a MAGA Republican, in a district near Santos’.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/05/12/sam-bankman-frieds-ties-to-george-santos-are-just-the-beginning/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines