Sam Bankman-Fried Met with Senior Biden Aide Prior to FTX Collapse – What Did They Discuss?
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried met with senior officials at the White House on at least four occasions prior to the collapse of FTX, White House visitor logs have revealed.
The last of the four meetings was reportedly held on September 8 between Sam Bankman-Fried – better known as SBF – and Steve Ricchetti, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden. The last meeting has not been publicly known until now.
The news was first reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, citing sources inside the White House “familiar with the situation.”
In addition to the September meeting with Ricchetti, Bankman-Fried was at the White House at least three other times in 2022, according to previously disclosed visitor logs. The first of these meetings took place on April 22, while the next ones happened on May 12 and May 13. The first two was held with Ricchetti, and the last was with Bruce Reed, another senior aide to President Biden.
Others, including SBF’s brother Gabriel Bankman-Fried and other FTX representatives, have also attended meetings at the White House, the visitor logs showed. The meetings reportedly focused on the crypto industry, crypto exchanges, as well as global health and pandemic prevention.
Gabriel Bankman-Fried leads Guarding Against Pandemics, an advocacy group dedicated to preventing the next pandemic.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of Bloomberg’s sources said politics was not discussed at any of the White House meetings. The source did not comment on whether donations or crypto regulation was discussed at the meetings.
Bankman-Fried is known as a major donor to the Democratic party, and has been a public champion for issues ranging from climate change to global health. Following the collapse of his exchange,
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