| Bankman-Fried
Crossed on
Private Jets
to DC and LA,
Dodgers Game
of Crypto
Creeps
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
LITERARY SDNY,
Oct 30 -- Thirtieth day of
October and now Sam
Bankman-Fried was on the
cross.
For real this
time, in front of the jury.
And the prosecutors' boss,
Damian Williams, came to see
the show. He'd done it for Bob
"Golden Bar" Menendez earlier
in the month.
But this
was the end of a show, not the
beginning. And Sam, it seemed,
was going down. Or was
he?
Did he remember
the podcast where he'd said he
had no involvement in Alameda?
Well no he did not.
Had he
spoken with the crypto book
author for 11 hours, as the
business wire apparently
claimed? No, not even five.
One hour at most, Sam said,
implying that these people
were hangers-on.
Sam had
better things to do. Thing
like flying to Washington in
private jets in most of his
100 trips for the year.
Did he remember
taking a private jet to the
Super Bowl, where he just
stumbled into Michael Kives'
box for a photo op and
hand-over of hundreds of
millions in FTX customers'
funds? No he did not. No
memory of how he traveled.
Because he traveled so
much.
Was
Bankman-Fried being stoic,
with the repeated Yup, Yup,
Yups? By, when forced to read
back his own claims, doing it
in a sarcastic
voice?
He
thought he was smarter than
everyone, that much was made
clear. And his parents had
propped him up in that, and
did so now, to the end, even
as Joe Bankman's name popped
up the exhibit screen on small
group Signal chats right to
the very end. Would it be
Joe's end too?
Damian Williams
left before the day's cross
was over, like someone from an
LA Dodgers game.
More on this on
Substack here
More book sample
on Substack here.
Extended on Patreon here.
Book here
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