[MONEY FLOW] CHAIN 2 HOPS 1 VANISH
Money-flow chain

Samuel Bankman-Fried 2022-cycle political donations from FTX-adjacent accounts

Documented totalUSD $40.00M
As of2022-11-08
Confidence[PRIMARY]

Aggregate of FEC-disclosed donations by Samuel Bankman-Fried in his own name (~$40M) plus additional sums routed through Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh (per DOJ superseding indictment S6 21 Cr. 673). FTX collapsed in November 2022; SBF was convicted on seven federal counts in October 2023. The underlying flows preceded and were contemporaneous with the fraud the conviction documented.

$40.00MDonationundisclosedSettlementSamBankman-FriedU.S. federalpolitical comm…FTX bankruptcyestate (claw…⛔
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Donation · primary · 2022-11-08
Sam Bankman-Fried → U.S. federal political committees (2022 cycle)
USD $40.00M (Aggregate FEC-disclosed 2022-cycle contributions in SBF's own name. The DOJ superseding indictment alleged additional sums were routed through Salame (who pleaded guilty to a campaign-finance count) and Singh; precise totals through those conduits are documented in the SDNY criminal docket.)
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Settlement · secondary · 2024-06-30
U.S. federal political committees (2022 cycle) → FTX bankruptcy estate (clawback recoveries, 2023-2024)
USD — (Following FTX's November 2022 Chapter 11 filing, most major 2022 recipients of SBF-affiliated donations publicly returned the funds. The FTX estate pursued formal clawback against committees that did not voluntarily return; recovery rate is documented in the estate's quarterly reports to the bankruptcy court (D. Del. 22-11068).)
⛔ Vanish point — Disclosure not filed
Voluntary-return amounts vs. formal-clawback recoveries are tracked unevenly across recipient committees. Some recipients reported the return to charity rather than to the estate; the dollar-level reconciliation across all 200+ recipients is not on a single public registry.
FTX Chapter 11 docket — Plan Administrator quarterly reports ↗
[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]
At least $40.0M in documented public funds flow through entities connected to this profile, while 5 elected officials hold documented connections.
$40.0MContract Value
1Money Chains
1Traced Hops
Connected Officials
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

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