Oregon Democratic Party to send federal officials a $500,000 donation from former FTX executive

The Democratic Party of Oregon said Friday it will send a half-million dollars to the US Marshals Service that had been donated by a former executive at the disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX, to conform with a request from the US Department of Justice.

Oregon elections officials had already fined the Democratic Party of Oregon $15,000 for wrongly reporting the source of the campaign donation last year. Oregon Senate Republicans had demanded that state Democrats send back the $500,000 campaign donation.

The Democratic Party of Oregon said it was conforming with an April 13 request from the Justice Department.