thanks. who pays if he and the parents skip the US to somewhere from which they're not retrievable, and their house sells for a very presumptive 4 million?

SBF and his parents are on the hook for the full amount, two other sureties for lesser amounts.

Personally fleeing doesn't really matter, because signing as a bail surety makes the court itself your agent for service of process, and default judgement is automatically available. (They do have to provide a copy of notices at the sureties last known address, but they don't have to actually serve notice on them.)

Now, if all the assets of SBF and his sureties are out of reach of the US government, that would be a problem.

Wouldn’t be totally out of character for him and his associates to misrepresent their financial standing.

You mean when. $4 million is a rounding error in the business he was just in.

I guess we pay, somehow.

With that level of living, he must have always had a few millions lying around, I wonder how it’s possible to come back to limit expenses to two or three thousand dollars a month, like the rest of us.

Yes, if he were black he would have had to put up the $250m

No it pretty much makes the actual system bullshit.