She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive

Re:She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her tes... by jasonjmcghee on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:51PM (#37861350)

I read this book. The tone of the entire thing is “look how amazing this guy is”.

If you read a book that presented Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff in this way, what would be your perspective?

I don’t pretend to have the facts or know for certain of anyone’s sure guilt, but a lot of the evidence is awfully damning.

(For example) Michael Lewis strongly insinuated that SBF took calculated and justifiable risk when losing track of $X00M for months at a time

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Re:She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her tes... by not2b on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:03PM (#37861565)

It gets worse. Lewis is now saying that the jury should read his book, and that either the jury will acquit SBF, or they will "lynch" him. He's evidently convinced that SBF did nothing wrong.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/111212491776903022

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Re:She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her tes... by jacquesm on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:22PM (#37862707)

I wasn't aware that reading a hagiography on the main suspect is now a requirement for jury duty. It would seem that the judge might have a thing or two to say about that.

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Re:She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her tes... by rurp on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:25PM (#37863365)

I haven't read the book but was inclined to give Lewis the benefit of the doubt given Matt Levine's take and Lewis' other work, but that Time interview really shifted my opinion. Lewis comes off terrible in that. The folks saying he got taken in by SBF make a lot more sense to me now.

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Re:She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her tes... by jononomo on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:21PM (#37861838)

To be fair, SBF is pretty amazing.

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