Posted on 12/13/2022 1:48:12 PM PST by Morgana
A Bahamian judge is allowing Sam Bankman-Fried's parents to leave court in the middle of his arraignment hearing to retrieve anti-depressants, Adderall and Zyrtec.
Bankman-Fried is accused of one of the 'biggest financial frauds in American history' - defrauding investors out of $1.8billion by convincing them his trading platform FTX was safe to use.
He is begging for mercy - asking for $250,000 cash bond - and claiming he can't be thrown in jail because he is depressed and follows a vegan diet.
Prosecutors in the Bahamas are begging a judge not to grant him bail, insisting he is a clear flight risk.
In court on Tuesday, they claimed he had even moved $300million to a Brazilian firm in September 2022, before filing bankruptcy, in a move that they say demonstrates his intention to flee justice.
Bankman-Fried faces 155 years in prison on eight counts of money laundering and fraud. US prosecutors are preparing to charge some of his friends too.
Prosecutors say he used the platform as a 'personal piggy bank' to fund a lavish lifestyle and make whopping political donations.
During proceedings on Tuesday, is Stanford law professor mother, Barbara, laughed when prosecutors referred to him as a 'fugitive'.
He maintains that he did nothing of the sort, and was going to tell Congress today that he could repay all of the people who have lost money 'tomorrow' if his assets were unfrozen, despite previously filing for bankruptcy.
Prosecutors in The Bahamas today argued that he should not be granted bail, insisting that he was a flight risk. He is in court currently in a blue and white shirt, and is not wearing handcuffs.
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Steal $100 from your office and you will spend time in jail. Steal billions in a pyramid scheme, but donate millions to democrats, then YOU are special and entitled to special treatment. Isn’t the equal application of law in America just great?
The fix is in.
We have January 6 defendants doing without their medications and being refused cancer treatments, and being held without trial for two years. There are numerous stories of jailed defendants being refused their diabetes medications and other needed prescribed drugs. But because Bankman is a favored democrat (and a vegan), his enabling, co-criminal parents, are allowed to run home for his Xanax.
yeah, that’s not how this works...
I seriously think he’s f’d up.
He didn’t go to a non-extradition country, and kept blabbing on the news.
Numerous people know, and are responsible with this.
This tard and his skeezer didn’t come up with this alone.
Where is his “girlfriend” who hit every limb on the “Ugly Tree” on her way down? It must’ve been of the sequoia variety.
Not to worry Sam, the Feds will provide you with your vegan diet, and your meds in your Federal cell where the cameras will stop working right before you don’t commit suicide.
Please keep us updated of this new defense strategy.
Last I heard was Hong Kong. No extradition.
I feel so sorry for the dude. NOT
I suspect this is the main reason they snatched him today. Somebody had to shut him up and get him under control, and most likely threaten him to not snitch.
I’d be depressed if I were a vegan too.
Become a billionaire scammer and donate to Democrats, and you, too will be above the law. Now that’s what I call Equality!/s
What an idiot. He could be living like a king on a 10,000 acre ranch in Paraguay.
He needs to be extradited to the DC gulag. Give him a vegan diet: bread and water.
Can't remember where I saw it, and haven't seen it printed anywhere else.
So maybe not true.
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