| SBF
Bragged of
Heat Seats for
Bahamas PM
Then DC &
China Bribe
Dropped Crypto
Creeps
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
LITERARY SDNY,
Oct 31 -- Thirty first day of
October and ghoulishly the SBF
testimony and trial evidence
came to an end.
How had he
not known that $8 billion were
gone? Smaller bore but more
telling, why had he offered to
Bahamas authorities that
Bahamians could withdraw from
FTX even as others couldn't,
could take their money out
before the bankruptcy freeze?
He was asked: did
you give courtside tickets in
the Miami Heat Arena to the
prime minister of the Bahamas?
He didn't think so, Sam
answered.
But here
was a message where he bragged
about it, where the PM and his
wife were right then. Had he
helped the son of the Bahamas
Attorney General, to whom he
made the "Bahamians First"
offer?
Not asked:
why hadn't the prosecutors
asked Sam's Bahamas lawyer
Krystal Rolle about these
gratuities, and the way things
seemed to work in the Bahamas.
It's better in the Bahamas, an
old ad used to say. Better for
some...
DOJ had
then deferred to the Bahamas -
that is to say, the Miami Heat
PM or Help My Son AG - and
dropped US campaign finance
violations and China bribery
charges against SBF.
And hadn't China
opened up one of its largest
embassies / spy stations in
the Bahamas? The Belt and
Road, it now appeared, ran
straight through Foley
Square.
The
re-direct was short; the
rebuttal witnesses were
dropped. By lunch the jury was
excused for the day and soon
the charge conference began.
An SBF lawyer named Stephen
Dick dicked around about
conscious avoidance (hadn't
Sam started avoiding meetings
about the hole? Hadn't he
overheard about the bug and
done nothing about it?) and
the legal instructions were
finished, or nearly so.
Team SBF
put in a one-page letter just
before five, and the
prosecutors if they filed one
didn't docket it. Things were
coming to a close...
More on this on
Substack here
More book sample
on Substack here.
Extended on Patreon here.
Book here
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