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our indictment that we ve unsealed today, please let us know. to any person, entity, or political campaign that has received stolen customer money, we ask that you work with us to return that money to the innocent victims. and to anyone who participated in wrong doing at ftx or alameda and has not yet come forward, i would strongly encourage you to come see us before we come see you. now, let me say a word about our partners at the fbi, the sec, and the cftc. the women and men of the fbi are some of the finest public servants in this country. and they have been with us since day one in this investigation and there is no one, no one better to work with. i want to thank the brilliant lawyers at the sec and cftc. this investigation is complex and sprawling. we embrace that kind of challenge here in the southern
in terms of how they created this company. it makes it very difficult to trace and track assets, particularly, as i ve said, in the crypto world. we have lost $8 billion, right? of customer money. so, by definition, i don t trust a single piece of paper in this organization. it s stunning to hear from this ceo, who also helped unwind enron, who says he s seen nothing like this. but tell us more about the charges. we re at the federal prosecutor s office waiting for the press conference to get underway. what we do know is eight criminal counts, two counts of
this year in the midst of the crypto crisis, he lied to investors in ftx about the fact he had sent billions of dollars in customer money to alameda. and fourth, we charge he violated federal campaign finance laws by causing tens of millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions be made to candidates and communities associated with both democrats and republicans. these were disguised to look like they were coming from wealthy coconspirators when in fact the contributions were funded by alameda research with stolen customer money. in all of this dirty money was used in service of his desire to buy bipartisan influence and impact the direction of public policy in washington. to anyone who was watching this or hears a this prosecution, if you believe that you have been a victim of these schemes or you have information about the conduct that we ve alleged in
these contributions were disguised to look like they were could go from wealthy co-conspirators, when in fact they were funded by alameda research, with stolen customer money. in all of this dirty money was used in service of bankman-fried s desire to buy bipartisan influence and impact the direction of public policy in washington. to anyone who was watching this or hears about this prosecution, if you believe that you have been a victim of these schemes or you have information about the conduct that we have alleged in our indictment we have unsealed today, please let us know. to any person, entity, or political campaign that has received stolen customer money, we ask that you work with us to return that money to the innocent victims. and to anyone who participated in wrongdoing at ftx or alameda research and who has not yet come forward, i would strongly