It's not slightly different at all. If I say, "The server at the restaurant gave the man a fork", would you think the man expected to walk away with the fork?

It's not slightly different at all. If I say, "The server at the restaurant gave the man a fork", would you think the man expected to walk away with the fork? Or to put it differently: Depositors gave money to FTX, which gave the money to Almeda Research, which gave the money to SBF, who gave it to his father. But only one of these four transactions was a gift.