Almost 18 months in the past, an obscure funding banker unveiled a blockbuster deal: His so-called blank-check firm would bankroll a social media outfit that former President Donald J. Trump deliberate to start out with a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
At this time, the social media platform Reality Social has hundreds of thousands of customers, together with the previous president. However the firm that was purported to bankroll it has been swarmed by federal investigators. In late March, the deal’s architect, Patrick Orlando, was…