This is not just financial benefit for a voting bloc.
It may or may not be illegal and whatever lawyers and judges tell us about that it still stinks just as strongly.
Third option is that it's absolutely illegal but you won't get a conviction so it passes.
Maintain the outrage no matter who and especially if you feel they're on your "team" in the partisan BS.
> Rather, the person familiar with Fairshake said, the goal of the attack campaign was to terrify other politicians—“to warn anyone running for office that, if you are anti-crypto, the industry will come after you.”
> “It’s a simple message,” the person familiar with Fairshake said. “If you are pro-crypto, we will help you, and if you are anti we will tear you apart.”