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See edit. TL;DR: Nowhere did I say that the alleged criminal acts of SBF of JE are "comparable". To say that is an extremely gross and unfathomable misunderstanding of what I was saying. I'm not sure why you would do that, to be very honest with you.

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You did compare them. But the reason Jeffery Epstein was powerful was because of the rich people who were on his plane/participating in his activities. AFAIK he wasn't a huge political donor. SBF was just throwing money around, which tons of people do. For better or (mostly) worse, donations to PACs and campaigns are entirely legal and not corrupt (well, assuming you got the money legally in the first place)

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