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Kevin Dugan’s overview really sums it up: stripped of the affectations, we discovered there wasn’t much to Sam Bankman-Fried at all.
[Intelligencer]
Over five weeks, the FTX founder’s parents watched from the galleys — deluded, humiliated, and finally, defeated.
Mistakes aren’t illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried’s lawyers never made his defense land.
His employees told him he ‘should stop asking questions because it was distracting.’
One of the books, Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up, was given to Bankman-Fried on the witness stand yesterday (He did not recall anything he was quoted as saying, naturally). The author of the other, Michael Lewis, was sitting in the gallery.
As an avowed John Lanchester fangirl, you can imagine the delighted, high-pitched noise I made when I saw he’d reviewed both books.
[London Review of Books]
Bankman-Fried gets a shot at his side of the FTX story — then promptly shreds his own credibility with the jury.
Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations.
The prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot of collateral damage.