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House Financial Services Chief Waters Not Planning to Subpoena Sam Bankman-Fried: Report
December 7, 2022
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told a group of Democrats that she doesn’t plan to subpoena former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to testify at a hearing on the crypto exchange’s collapse next week, according to a report from CNBC.
Waters told members of the committee about her decision at a meeting with SEC Chair Gary Gensler on Tuesday, according to CNBC’s sources.
The sources said Waters prefers to try to persuade Bankman-Fried to testify voluntarily rather than subpoena him.
Waters and Bankman-Fried have been tweeting at each other, with Waters inviting him to testify at the hearing on Tuesday. Bankman-Fried replied he felt that it was his “duty” to appear before the committee once he’s “finished learning and reviewing what happened.” But he noted that “I’m not sure that will happen by [Dec. 13].”
Though not yet formally charged with any wrongdoing, Bankman-Fried is reportedly being probed by both U.S. federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission for his actions with respect to FTX and its sister company, Alameda Research.
A spokesperson for Waters did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the CNBC report.
This story originally appeared on Coindesk
Sauce: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/house-financial-services-chief-waters-not-planning-to-subpoena-sam-bankman-fried-report-1031959045
Mad Max dindu nuthin
AOC dindu nuthin either. Damn the torpedos! Full steam ahead!
AOC facing House ethics investigation after ‘Tax the Rich’ Met Gala freebie
December 7, 2022
The House Ethics Committee is investigating Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congressional panel confirmed Wednesday.
The eight-member committee provided no details about the nature of the investigation, saying only that it had decided to extend its consideration of a matter brought to its attention on June 23 of this year, and would announce its ultimate course of action some time next year.
But socialist darling AOC was the subject of two complaints submitted to the Office of Congressional Ethics over her attendance at last year’s Met Gala.
Ocasio-Cortez made waves at the gala wearing a designer-made dress emblazoned with the words: “Tax the Rich.”
Both complaints allege the socialist rep, 33, broke House rules by accepting free tickets to the star-studded affair.
“The Committee notes that the mere fact of a referral or an extension, and the mandatory disclosure of such an extension and the name of the subject of the matter, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” a statement read.
Lawmakers are allowed under chamber regulations to take free tickets to charity events directly from organizers — and The Post has previously reported that Ocasio-Cortez and her now-fiancé Riley Roberts were directly invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sauce/more: https://nypost.com/2022/12/07/aoc-subject-of-congressional-ethics-probe/
>So not only did FBI have at least 8 informants embedded in Proud Boys before Jan 6, its leader was working with DC Metro Police
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Tarrio pic caption:
Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 26, 2020. A legal fight has erupted over a Washington D.C. police officer who was communicating with Tarrio in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that could shape the outcome of the upcoming trial of Tarrio and other far-right extremists. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)
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