Posted on 03/26/2024 10:46:16 PM PDT by Libloather
Sam Bankman-Fried's defense has filed a collection of letters from interested parties on Tuesday asking for leniency for the former FTX CEO - who is being sentenced this week.
A friend of his from his MIT days said 'vegan' Bankman-Fried would be 'an asset to society' if given a lenient sentence, in the new court documents.
'Sam felt deeply for every living being, farm animals included - so much so that he adhered to a vegan diet and convinced several others in our living group to become vegan, too. He took every actionable step he could to reduce suffering,' the friend wrote.
Bankman-Fried's vegan lifestyle has been well documented, with his lawyers complaining in August 2023 that he was subsisting on bread and water in jail because officials wouldn't comply with his dietary restrictions.
Another friend, this time a college roommate of the crypto founder, had a similar story for the court, again referencing his deep affinity for farm animals.
He also gave Bankman-Fried high marks on doing his chores around the house, saying he 'consistently did so well.'
Two parents of children on the spectrum - either with Asperger's and autism - wrote sympathetic letters describing their own struggles raising neurodivergent kids.
One parent wrote that she didn't know her son was on the spectrum until he was 31. She explained that children who have autism often shut down when presented with chaotic situations.
'Though I have never met Sam, I firmly believe that while he may be an MIT grad - he did not fully understand the scope of what was going on and did not have malicious intent.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That’s not the face of a kind person, but a lower level demon.
Where’s the $500 Mil restitution?
[For the NYS coffers]
“...his deep affinity for farm animals...”
Really?
[I hope we never have to explore this trail...]
How many poor defenseless plants have had their lives stolen from them due to feed Fried’s food greed?
Is there an ethical difference between eating weeds v. eating grass?
He gonna be the wife.
If he “cared about doing good for the world,” this crooked dude would not have given countless millions to democrats.
RE: eating grass
That phrase was in the news yesterday as AOC pleaded for an end to US aid to Israel:
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes,” she continued. “It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves....”
AOC needs to tell the colonialist/genocidal Hamas cretins to disarm and surrender.
—> Peace.
Rarely do the Mulies come through.
The Whitetail tend to munch but the grass, never the weeds.
I still have to rev up the mower....
“Gentle, a vegan, wants to do good for the world”. Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho. Wanna buy a bridge? Got one for sale, cheap, going fast, buy now, you can afford it! Gimme money!
Give the rat-bastard what he deserves, 50 years with no possibility of early release and let him pick the vegetables out of his meals. He ought to get extra time for being a nasty vegan.
Sam will get “widened” in prison..
“he was subsisting on bread and water in jail because officials wouldn’t comply with his dietary restrictions.”
…these “restrictions” were likely meals only cooked by 5 star chefs.
Why aren’t Sam’s Democrat buddies saying a good word for him? He contributed millions to them.
If a “deep love of farm animals” is a new legal standard, that should absolve most terrorists and a certain few DC representatives.
Hey, Sam, would you prefer almond milk or nut juice?
But they stole from investors, human things -- in order to donate tons of the stolen loot to the Genocidal Left.
They hate people. We get that much.
Nor would he have done anything illegal.
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