“Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said Monday he will testify remotely rather than in person before Congress because he’s ‘quite overbooked’ and has security concerns about ‘paparazzi’ if he were to travel to Washington, DC,” the New York Post reports.
“Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee are preparing to grill Bankman-Fried on Tuesday over the swift collapse of the digital currency exchange that was once worth tens of billions of dollars.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.