Obscure candidate hack: self-fund your campaign with $3.3 million and become the “top fundraiser” in your race, then just cut yourself a check for $1.67 million back

you know it’s the depths of winter in New England when “mid-March” sounds like a distant, almost mythical time. when my librarian told me that’s when my books would be due back it’s like I caught a glimpse of spring.
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Sam Bankman-Fried has just filed a pro se motion for a new trial, via his mother

His motion mainly argues that two former FTX employees who didn't testify (Daniel Chapsky and Ryan Salame) would have undercut prosecutors' narrative, but were threatened out of testifying. He also claims Nishad Singh was coerced by prosecutors into changing his testimony.
The Dresden Files series, book 5
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