SBF is still twisting facts to hide FTX crypto losses, DOJ says to block new trial.
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Well, unfortunately that doesn't change the sad fact that is if WAS a "Republican" and large donor to republicans prior to his conviction by the Biden administration that he would have most likely received a pardon.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but how is SBF able to post on the internet if he's incarcerated?
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Wow.
The only person in the world dumber than Trump is SBF. I can't believe SBF thought he could win his way into a pardon without a bribe to the president, which is hard to do while in prison.
The fact that his major donation to the democrats in 2020 is what damned him though, because as someone else said if it had been to Trump he'd already be out of prison.
The only person in the world dumber than Trump is SBF. I can't believe SBF thought he could win his way into a pardon without a bribe to the president, which is hard to do while in prison.
The fact that his major donation to the democrats in 2020 is what damned him though, because as someone else said if it had been to Trump he'd already be out of prison.
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Probably has an AI doing it for him? After all, we know the AI's are pathological: And SBF sure as hell is.
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I imagine Elizabeth Holmes is carefully taking notes, planning her rehabilitation.
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SBF put himself in an impossible position when he tried to pay trump not to run.
On the one hand, he never paid and trump certainly feels stiffed. On the other hand, even making the offer is a powerful signal of disapproval that trump won’t forget. I once tried to pay a busker in the Boston Common to not play while I was there; the guy instead took my money and followed me around playing louder and worse. trump is likely to stick it to SBF in the same way he rewards doubt and resistance from others, like Tim Walz and Minneapolis.
On the one hand, he never paid and trump certainly feels stiffed. On the other hand, even making the offer is a powerful signal of disapproval that trump won’t forget. I once tried to pay a busker in the Boston Common to not play while I was there; the guy instead took my money and followed me around playing louder and worse. trump is likely to stick it to SBF in the same way he rewards doubt and resistance from others, like Tim Walz and Minneapolis.
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics as they say.
The only reason creditors were repaid more (in dollars) is because the value of the remaining crypto holdings increased by more than the amount he and his gang of criminals embezzled. The creditors are still down and always will be compared to if he hadn't stolen from them in the first place.
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Most likely someone is just posting for him. He has ability to make phone calls that person can post as him.
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She already requested a commuted sentence from Trump earlier this year, apparently to no effect.
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A history of lies might get you retweets on Truth Social, but unless you pay up, no pardon for you. Cmon, Sam, all the other white collar criminals figured it out already. I thought you were a finance genius?
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"The former Democratic megadonor". That's a bit incomplete. SBF admitted that he gave just as much to the GOP but he did it quietly because he thought it would hurt his reputation. The point being that the only point to giving to either party was an effort to curry favor, which worked with the public on Democratic giving but worked with the party on Republican giving.
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But the stupid fuck has no money to pay the bribes to Trump et al. to get them to do what he wants.
It's always pay to play, and he ain't got the entry fee.
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Personally I hope Sam spends the rest of his life rotting in jail. I find it hilarious though that Republicans are rejecting his political switcheroo meanwhile, Trump did the exact same thing the year before he ran for president in 2016. Everything about conservatives and crypto is just so stupid.
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Strictly speaking, he was convicted by a petit jury. Grand juries decide indictments, not criminal convictions.
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Why try grifting a grifter, who knows perfectly well that you no longer can obtain the cold hard cash to make the grift in any way plausible. Unless you have secretly obtained futures on Orville Reddenbacher stock.
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Well if he pardons SBF then does that screw up any narrative about CZ? Seeing as Binance and FTX had a thing going on and if the going story is that FTX is the bad-guy and Binance was "just doing business" they can't BOTH be pardoned.
Right?
Right?
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Just like most (all?) tech billionaires, SBF doesn't have any convictions to a given ideology beyond that related to his own wealth, power, and influence. He donated millions of dollars to Republican campaigns, albeit secretly through back-channels. But sad for SBF, that doesn't work for Trump, who values the perception of loyalty above all else.
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As long as he posts words he’ll get nothing from Trump. If he ‘donates’ a check with a lot of zeros in it, he will be free that day. Trump’s whitehouse is strictly pay-to-play.
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"Those who were harmed have since been repaid between 119 to 143 percent of the value of their lost cryptocurrency holdings, Bankman-Fried claimed."
That is his problem right there! If he had only claimed 1,500% the GOP would have bought it!
That is his problem right there! If he had only claimed 1,500% the GOP would have bought it!
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I had 100% forgotten that Rump pardoned Ulbricht. Lost in the torment of all the other awful things Trump has done since.
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It's not at all surprising that SBF would try this tactic both due to a lack of any moral conviction but also because of the evidence that flattering the President is a direct path to getting a pardon. What SBF forgot is to hide some of the money he stole so that he could use it to buy Trump's preferred crypto for receiving graft.
One note on the article, grand juries don't issue convictions. Buckley's filing actually indicates that SBF was convicted by petit jury which is just legalese for a normal jury.
One note on the article, grand juries don't issue convictions. Buckley's filing actually indicates that SBF was convicted by petit jury which is just legalese for a normal jury.
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Like most crime bosses and their networks, MAGA can't rely on legitimate law and so must rely on hard power and a policy of loyalty and vindictiveness. The other guy is a literal murderer among many other offenses? Permissible, even laudable, given the right circumstances. But being seen to have been a patron of political enemies? Even if it was self-serving, it still cannot stand. There is no greater crime.
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He is a very special boy, you know, like Ross Ulbricht, Changpeng Zhao, and many other human parasites. His parents belong in prison as well, but they plead ignorance, to escape that plight.
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Deposit or emdorsement (no misspell) to the right crypto account (hell the Saudis did it .5t) or a 400m jet to a "presidential library" and he'll get a pardon anyway. lol
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He'll figure out who to bribe eventually. Then he'll be welcomed to the fold and in some fashion Biden will be blamed for his persecution.
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Trying to flatter Trump to get out of jail free is probably one of his more logical moves over the last years and outright sensible compared to the stuff for what he was jailed ...
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Its rarely flattery that earns a pardon. It requires a hard bribe or a direct order from Israel. The later seems occupied currently so hell have to rely on the former.
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His crime isn't reprehensible to the current admins. They'd pardon him and put him in charge of the Federal Reserve... if he hadn't donated money to Biden and pretended to be a Democrat on the public stage.
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