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> The amount of comments in here who think that SBF is going to walk away scot free is unbelievable. Well, it depends on what example you want to compare SBF t
by michaelt 4y ago
> The amount of comments in here who think that SBF is going to walk away scot free is unbelievable.
Well, it depends on what example you want to compare SBF to.
Maybe this will be like Bernie Madoff, and SBF will die in jail.
Or maybe this will be like the 2008 financial crisis, with barely any punishment and most of the people who caused the crash gifted billions of dollars of taxpayers' money.
Maybe it will be like Elizabeth Holmes, and SBF will get 10 years in jail.
Or maybe it will be like the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, where there appear to be substantial crimes revealed, and yet somehow nobody gets prosecuted.
Maybe it will be like George Floyd, and stealing $20 is enough to get someone killed on the spot, let alone a billion dollars.
Or maybe, like Ghislaine Maxwell was prosecuted for trafficking minors to have sex with... nobody, apparently... it'll turn out any evidence of other people's involvement has somehow vanished in a puff of smoke.
Maybe it will be like Enron's Kenneth Lay, and he'll be found guilty and face a big jail sentence.
Or maybe, like the Bhopal disaster or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the corporation will pay some money but despite corporations being comprised of nothing except people, somehow no people will face any punishment.
My intuition is SBF won't manage to avoid prosecution - He hasn't managed to spread the blame thinly enough, he isn't a prince, and $70 million in donations don't make you into Scooter Libby. But in the American justice system, it can really go either way.