According to TechFlow, on October 11, according to Cointelegraph, Ryan Salame, former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the US government unfairly targeted him because of his support for the Republican Party.
Salame claimed that he was wrongly accused of "campaign finance violations" because he donated to the Republican Party. He stressed that convicted former colleagues such as FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) "helped Biden get elected" and never faced the same charges. Salame said that he donated a total of $20 million to $30 million to Republican candidates, while SBF donated about $60 million to $70 million to the Democratic Party in the 2020 election cycle.
Salame explained that the campaign finance violations he was accused of were because he borrowed money from Alameda to make political donations. At the time, his lawyers advised him that this was legal. However, he was later accused of orchestrating a "straw donation scheme," which is the illegal use of other people's funds to make political donations in his own name.
