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Der_Missionar OP t1_iwsw174 wrote

Reply to comment by Insectshelf3 in FTX suggests Sam Bankman-Fried transferred assets to Bahamas government custody after bankruptcy: Filing by Der_Missionar

At best he's completely incompetent, at worst, he knew exactly what he was doing, and had no empathy at all for the repercussions....

All signs point to the latter. If so, this dude is a psychopath.

Yet i have a nagging feeling, he's also incompetent, which is a truly scary combination.....

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Insectshelf3 t1_iwswd0y wrote

oh he knew. nobody conducts business over signal with self deleting messages because their conduct is unimpeachable.

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carlosdangermouse t1_iwt4aim wrote

I’ll point out that both his parents are law professors and his father visited him in the Bahamas. He did not cook this up all on his own…

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PinwheelsAndUnicorns t1_iwswpsm wrote

>Yet i have a nagging feeling, he's also incompetent

I kind of have that feeling, too. White collar criminals are understudied imo.

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calumin t1_iwtokh4 wrote

I don’t think anybody is going to buy an incompetence defense. Delusional, reckless, and suffering from megalomania, yes, but not incompetent.

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mces97 t1_iwszxuh wrote

You know who are also often classified as having sociopathic traits? Rich ass CEOs and rich businessmen. And he is going to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life.

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Hemske t1_iwu3hfp wrote

This is the guy who made his fortune arbitrage trading.

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Mostest_Importantest t1_iwt5mhe wrote

To me, all this evidence points to SBF being the patsy that was inflated by old billionaires and groomed since high school or college by financier top-tier assholes.

Yeah, SBF is gonna be on the hook for billions, but I'll bet his handlers pulled trillions from governments and private citizens with nothing but a very faint watermark on all the money transfers, coming and going.

The more I learn about SBF, his sultry wood nymphs, and the complete lack of ability to swim in the deep end of financial systems and their vernaculars has me believing that it's a lot more likely that the true players of global finances found in him a very useful idiot.

Like... I'll bet SBF couldn't even give state's evidence against his handlers, because he knows, understands, and reflects such simplistic thought processes through the whole thing.

The dude tried deleting tweets? Any competent public, social, financial figure knows there's no deleting shit off the internet. Somebody's always recording that shit.

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