Sam Bankman-Fried used US$100 million in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says
Bankman-Fried has previously pleaded not guilty to stealing billions of dollars in FTX customer funds to plug losses at Alameda Research, his crypto-focused hedge fund. Kaplan jailed him last Friday ahead of his Oct 2 trial, after finding probable cause that Bankman-Fried tampered with witnesses. Previously, Bankmman-Fried had been largely confined to his parents' Palo Alto,…