Holy moly, can you imagine the media treatment if this guy was a conservative??
YEESH!
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is (allegedly) nothing more than a swindling conman who stole billions of dollars from investors, is still being given sympathy from the corporate media.
Bankman-Fried fled to the Bahamas to avoid arrest. Then he was extradited to the US, and STILL, the corporate media is portraying the historic conman as a virtuous do-gooder.
Seriously, he's not a gang member? That's your argument?
Yet in interviews across the island Mr. Bankman-Fried called home for just over a year, residents almost universally said that while the white-collar nature of his crimes was troublesome, they were hardly comparable to the gang violence that pervades some corners of the island. They expressed fears of economic fallout for the island if he and the other cryptocurrency brethren he attracted didn't return.
This man swindled $8 billion out of people while running a crypto business that was likely used to launder funds between entities like the US government, Ukraine, and the Democratic Party, but the NYT wants you to know he's just a lovable guy!
Residents may find it easier to commiserate with Mr. Bankman-Fried because it is unlikely that FTX's victims, who prosecutors say lost as much as $8 billion in the fraud, included many locals. Residents of the Bahamas must apply for special permission from the country's central bank to invest in cryptocurrency, and the government levies a percentage fee for the privilege.
Perched on a concrete block in the shade outside the Nassau prison where the onetime wunderkind was held, Patrick Ferguson, a 61-year-old painter and longtime resident, said Mr. Bankman-Fried's alleged crimes paled in comparison with those he generally associated with hard prison time. "It just doesn't make any sense," Mr. Ferguson said.
Bankman-Fried is a white-collar criminal, so the folks in the Bahamas who benefitted from his spending money there, and the people he didn't steal from didn't care about his crimes.
That's just a heck of a claim from The New York Times.
"He's just a misunderstood soul."
We all know what's really going on here.
He gave money mostly to Democrats and pretended to be woke.
So he's still a hero for now.
