Sen. Ron Wyden’s campaign was looped in on $500K donation from FTX executive to Oregon Democrats, records show

The Democratic Party of Oregon spent at least some of the $500,000 donation it received from FTX executive Nishad Singh to send mailers attacking Republican candidate for governor Christine Drazan last year, although the party misidentified payment processor Prime Trust as the donor. The fundraiser who coordinated the donation has a long history of working for U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden's campaign.

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A fundraiser long associated with U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and his campaigning efforts coordinated the $500,000 donation from an FTX executive to the Democratic Party of Oregon last fall, and two longtime Wyden campaign staffers were kept in the loop on the transaction, records show.

Yet Oregon elections officials in the Secretary of State’s Office who investigated the huge contribution, which Democrats misreported as coming from a payment processor, did not mention the Wyden campaign’s involvement in a settlement with the party last month.

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