bahamian authorities were going to file charges, maybe that would have impacted the extradition if they had filed charges that were higher than what we re going to see here. the u.s. government wanted to get them in ahead of time possibly. bill: let s bring in andy mccarthy. the charges were filed in the southern district of new york. your piece is curious timing of sam bankman-fried arrest and lee zeldin who ran for governor. house republicans were ready to grill him. now sbf was just arrested. why not allow him to testify first and answer the many questions under oath? where do you come down on this, andy? bill, if you are the justice department, you are a prosecutor on this case and the prospect of a potential fraud defendant who goes in front of congress under oath to make hours of testimony, a lot of it probably elicited by
lawmakers should give back their donations. do you think some lawmakers that got donations from ftx s founder should give that money back. well, i don t want to get into that matter, both sides, democrats and republicans have received donations. by every measure, regulators are beginning to follow the money. ftx dolling out major cash to democrats for the midterms including $27 million to protect our future pac, 6 million to the house majority pac, that s aligned with nancy pelosi and 2 million to the gmi pac. now bankman freed faces possible extradition to the u.s. that comes amid news that his father drafted legislation for massachusetts senator elizabeth warren now sbf as is he known is treating his way through the financial calamity adding 18 more tweets to a meandering thread for which he apologized to his failings adding we got overconfident and careless this