#Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #SBF "The US government dropped the campaign finance charge against Sam Bankman-Fried this week, after The Bahamas informed them they had not intended to extradite him on that charge.
The “SBF is going to walk” crowd of conspiracy theorists — who broadly think that SBF’s past political donations to Democrats have bought him a ticket out of any convictions for his alleged crimes — immediately went full throttle, claiming this was only the beginning as the criminal justice system lets SBF get away with it. Never mind that Sam Bankman-Fried’s political donations were actually pretty evenly distributed across the political spectrum1 — he was just a lot louder about the donations to the Dems, and the people advancing these theories tend to be folks on the right, such as Vivek Ramaswamy and Glenn Greenwald.
The truth is a bit less salacious, I think. The United States has to honor its treaty obligations to other countries, and Sam Bankman-Fried still has twelve other charges left to wiggle out of. As Ken White (aka Popehat) put it in a recent episode of his Serious Troublepodcast, The Bahamas’ objection to the charge is “like saying ‘okay, you can shoot him, but you can only have eight bullets, not nine’”. Getting the charge dismissed is a win for SBF, no doubt, but he’s got a hell of a lot more battles left to fight."
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-35-pondering-my-orb