The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried was pitched by close observers as something of a reckoning: for the cryptocurrency industry, for the Silicon Valley move-fast-and-break-things ethos, for the freewheeling zero-interest-rate era, and more generally for the blind spots of American capitalism. Between Jan. 6 and 19, Flynn’s campaign received such donations from Zabel and Hopkins, who had just received “gifts” from …
