Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use
Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use
SBF claimed he used the VPN to watch a football game.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the former billionaire remanded after prosecutors pushed to have his bail revoked, citing violations that included Bankman-Fried’s admitted usage of VPN software that he said was to watch an NFL game and the judge’s view that he had attempted to tamper with witnesses “at least twice.”
To quote a great poet, a haiku:
ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha fuck you
160Beautiful
19I must obligingly credit the great MiddleAgeRiot, who should really get over to the fediverse already: https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1666969837988356096
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Fuckin finally. So, so tired of every white collar shitbro being afforded every opportunity to keep being a shitstain.
Everyone from fuckin SBF to Donald Fuckin Trump.
Stop glad handing these pricks and treat them like you would any other criminal, worthless fucking "justice" system.
Regular ass people can be beaten and arrested based on cops getting the wrong person, and then when you justifiably "resisted" because you're fucking innocent, it means you'll have "resisting arrest" charges following you the rest of your fucking life.
Yet these pricks can make calls about when they'll turn themselves in.
120In the end it doesn't matter much. He will be convicted and this will count as time served
-14He’s not facing two months. He’s facing 115 years to 155 years according to federal sentencing guidelines. Even if he’s only found guilty of one single count, he will do 20 years minimum.
Certain groups of internet people have been saying he’s going to get away with this the entire time. And everything points to the opposite. And now his bail has been revoked, and the goal post is being moved.
This dude is beyond fucked. It’s time to find someone else to talk about when it comes to the failures and special treatment related the justice department. Using him as an example of said failures really waters down that otherwise valid complaint.
18If he violated terms of bail and committed a crime in doing so, that should result in bail forfeiture. Bail was $250 million.
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fuck this fucking guy so hard. The fact that he's been able to UP UNTIL NOW spend all his time in the lap of luxury in palo alto is a disgrace.
63He was living in a house his parents bought with money laundered from user deposits that he stole. His parents are paying his lawyers with that money, too.
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Dudes a moron. All he had to do was sit at home and do nothing.
53Just goes to show Sammy is nothing more than a techbro.
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I can't believe these ethical altruists are so amoral. Wow
19Sam Bankman-Jailed!
18Sam Bankman-Deepfried
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been on house arrest in California since December while awaiting trial on fraud and money laundering charges over the crypto exchange’s collapse, but today he was sent to jail, as first reported by Inner City Press.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the former billionaire remanded after prosecutors pushed to have his bail revoked, citing violations that included Bankman-Fried’s admitted usage of VPN software that he said was to watch an NFL game and the judge’s view that he had attempted to tamper with witnesses “at least twice.”
Docket entry from Friday’s Bond Revocation Hearing:
The witness tampering covered Bankman-Fried sharing documents used in a New York Times article reporting on diary entries written by Caroline Ellison, the former co-CEO of Alameda Research and SBF’s ex, who has already pleaded guilty and is cooperating as a witness against him.
The other incident covered Bankman-Fried’s attempts in January to contact FTX general counsel Ryne Miller over email and the encrypted messaging platform Signal.
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18You don't get to be a billionaire by paying for NFL Sunday Ticket. Embrace hustle and grind culture!
13I’m confused. What is the connection between using a VPN and witness tampering? Anyone care to explain?
12They're both violations of the conditions of release. Two separate violations, unrelated except for being prohibited behavior.
32Sounds like they're two different violations to me
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NOOOO WHAT ABOUT THE EFFECTIVE ALTRUISMINOS? WHO WILL WE TURN TO ENSURE TRILLIONS OF IMMORTAL CYBER GODS SMILING BACK AT US IN THE FAR FUTURE?
11sam bankrun-fraud
10Maybe he can bring some effective altruism to his cell mates.
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7RIP BOZO
6LOL. LMAO.
6I had no idea that VPN usage was controversial. I had to use them for work in the past. I just assumed that private parties would be using them eventually.
6@MonsiuerPatEBrown @ken27238 i think it was more of the violation of terms of his house arrest
29It’s only controversial if your online life is being monitored as a condition of bail. The VPN gets around the monitoring.
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boo hoo, said nobody
2I know that our incarceration facilities are inhumane but would be lying if there wasn’t a bit of ugly schadenfreude I feel knowing he’ll be in one of the most notorious places in the whole system. No kiddie gloves
2Whatever prison he goes to wouldn't be as bad as the ones regular folks go to.
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