Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by maxbond on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:50PM
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He's been charged, there's a mountain of evidence against him, and he's facing trial. That's what my expectations were. I don't think see a need to crank every step of the process up to 11. He's on a conveyor belt leading to a meat grinder.
Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by fanso99 on Friday December 23, 2022 @01:10PM
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People are upset that he is getting special treatment. Again. He doesn't deserve it.
Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by dragonwriter on Friday December 23, 2022 @01:36PM
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> People are upset that he is getting special treatment.
He's not, and the perception that he is comes from a misunderstanding of the systems involved, which is why the descriptions of how this is supposedly special treatment or surprising tend to include as the foundation multiple layers of wrong assumptions about how bail works in general.
That really makes me wonder if these people have ever followed a rich person's trial before. They all get special treatment. They even get special incarceration.
Do any of them deserve it?
Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by maxbond on Friday December 23, 2022 @01:25PM
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Is he getting special treatment or do people not have detailed knowledge of how the criminal justice system operates and so are objecting to any perceived leniency at every step?
Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by fanso99 on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:21PM
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No, probably just special treatment: https://twitter.com/whalechart/status/1606293657518080001
Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by maxbond on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:22AM
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That judge recused herself because their husband works at a law firm that advised FTX - note the husband did not work with FTX, other people in the same law firm did. We found out about it from the judge, to avoid the appearance of impropriety - not because any impropriety is alleged to have happened. This wasn't even the same judge who approved the bail. I'm not seeing the conspiracy.
This really seems to me like a Thursday in the criminal justice system, with every single step being scrutinized and cast into the worst possible light.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/judge-sbf-case-recuses-h...
The guy stole billions from average people AND big time investors (he pissed on both buckets), he then proceeded to make such dumb mistakes that make him seem like it has a borderline mental issue, he also happens to be an absolute zero for charisma. How do you expect someone to sympathize with him, honestly?
What would you like to happen then?