Posted on 12/15/2022 1:28:15 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
As Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried sat in a Bahamian courtroom Tuesday, the popular Stanford law professors had to be worried about more than whether their FTX founder son, Sam Bankman-Fried, will go to prison for orchestrating what a federal prosecutor described as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.”
The couple also have to be concerned about their own legal jeopardy, a criminal law expert said, given reports that they were involved, at some level, in their son’s efforts to build his allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange into a $32 billion business. They face scrutiny on multiple fronts over whether they were complicit in the alleged crimes that led to the company’s spectacular collapse.
“I can’t imagine a world where Bankman-Fried’s parents were not his financial and legal advisors,” said Matthew Barhoma, a criminal defense and appellate attorney who is based in Los Angeles.
It could get especially ugly for the couple, who are accustomed to a privileged life in high-minded academia. If prosecutors and the FBI want to play hardball, they could try to force Bankman and Fried to cooperate with the investigation and to testify against their beloved son …
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Then they HAVE to get them on a STATE LAW so Biden CAN’T Pardon them!
“My opinion is that all this skulduggery n thievery will be uncovered.”
I won’t hold my breath waiting. Too many US pols have their filthy hands all over this. They guy will be whacked before things get too sticky, and the case will be dropped.
All three will end up at Club Fed.
Where’s the Harry Potter GF. Early on it sounded like she was in this up to her fivehead. Wonder if she went as the tell all insider.
The fact that his guy did not take the first flight out of the Bahamas on a private jet to some undisclosed location just shows how stupid he really was.
IF I had committed fraud and had hundreds of millions squirreled away in foreign banks I would have had an escape plan. Fat boy and his parents could have lived out the rest of their life in Montenegro, Ecuador or some other country with no extradition.
Agreed. I was surprised he was still in the Bahamas.
That’s the mentality you get when you are never held accountable for your actions.
So his parents were never married. That’s were the hyphenated name comes from.
Bankman-Fried
I thought only frigid box wine drinking, cat poop cleaning lesbos did the hyphenated crap?
She was supposed to be in Hong Kong (where she is rumored to live). But someone in NYC saw her at Starbucks about a block from FBI NYC headquarters. They snapped a picture of her buying a coffee (or whatever they buy at Starbucks). It is speculated that she is going to turn state's evidence.
IF I had committed fraud and had hundreds of millions squirreled away in foreign banks I would have had an escape plan. Fat boy and his parents could have lived out the rest of their life in Montenegro, Ecuador or some other country with no extradition.
This is done every year by loads of immigrant doctors and small business men. Immigrant restaurant owners. They commit Medicare / Medicaid fraud, cheat on taxes, EBT whatever. When things get too hot they can bug out back to Pakistan, China or Latin America. Since they are citizens of those sh_tholes they will not be extradited. Of course they have squirreled away a million or lots more millions of dollars in the banks back home.
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/As-a-community-mourns-limo-owner-s-story-emerges-13305191.php and he was an FBI informant, big surprise
Not a chance to many democrats owe him fear he will talk.
Wait for Bermuda triangle story to ensue he’s gone.
he put on a suit for court, like that was going to help...
anybody what ever shook his hand, will never be clean
Thanks for the update!
GREG GUTFELD: Why didn’t anyone question Sam Bankman-Fried?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-why-didnt-anyone-question-sam-bankman-fried
Happy Tuesday, everybody. Calm down, everybody. So let’s talk about the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried, a.k.a mashed potato ****.
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