In a letter Tuesday to Judge Ronnie Abrams, a prosecutor in Williams' office wrote, "The Government expects that the evidence will show that the defendant defrauded FTX customers by misappropriating their funds for his personal use, including to invest for his own account, to make tens of millions of dollars of political contributions."The prosecutor wrote that the alleged scheme allowed Bankman-Fried to evade limits on the amount of money that can be donated by individuals to campaigns, "corporate donation limits and donation reporting requirements."The complaint by CREW quotes an interview with Bankman-Fried, who is known as SBF, that suggests he donated up to $37 million or more to GOP-linked campaign efforts in a manner that avoided legally required public disclosure of those contributions."The question is whether regulators, including the SEC, backed off from aggressive investigation of FTX because of this political influence," Painter said.Painter said another question is whether politicians who received donations from Bankman-Fried had spoken about regulating cryptocurrency markets."