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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by smsm42 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @12:03PM (#37101564)
Getting charged with tampering is much, much easier than successfully tamper. If he wanted to scare Elison publishing some dirt or sending texts is not going to do it - feds have much better ways to scare people into cooperation. And his very expensive lawyers told him as much, I am sure, because every lawyer would. But he probably decided he knows better.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by nostrademons on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:16PM (#37102774)
But the payoffs are very much asymmetric. Getting convicted of tampering adds a few extra years to his sentence which will probably be more than his life anyway. Successfully tampering with the witness may avoid the conviction in the first place.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by smsm42 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:53AM (#37107090)
Except there's no chance of successful tampering the way he did it. Never was. Publishing dirt on one of his co-conspirators is not going yo negate his conviction.
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