Crypto spent $55 million defending a senator who already backed CLARITY

Defend American Jobs, a crypto-backed political group, spent more than $55 million in Ohio from Sept. 21 to Oct. 26 to support Republican Jon Husted and oppose Sherrod Brown, according to Americans for Financial Reform. Husted had already voted to advance the CLARITY Act, a legislative measure. The reported spending came as voters headed to the polls on Nov. 3 in midterm elections that will determine control. Americans for Financial Reform supplied the spending figure.