Before everything fell apart, Gabe Bankman-Fried believed he had a superpower that could help him deal with Washington’s many blowhards and suck-ups.
“I spent a lot of the last year staring into the eyes of politicians,” he told me in October 2022.
And thanks to Gabe’s brother, Sam Bankman-Fried, the then-billionaire and head of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, GAP had plenty of that.
Sam Bankman-Fried dropped $27 million into Protect Our Future, a super PAC with similar stated goals.
This kind of money made Gabe a big deal in Washington.
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