Is stealing billions of dollars really all that bad? Views differ
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Check out this NYT pitchbot:
In the U.S., Sam Bankman-Fried is persona non grata. But in interviews across the Bahamas, residents say that his crimes were hardly comparable to the gang violence of the island, and expressed fears of economic fallout if crypto investors don’t return.
Oh wait that’s the actual New York Times.
“The local economy was very dependent on my Ponzi scheme” would be a novel criminal defense. Hopefully.
This is the zillionth example of how the most straightforward thievery can suddenly turn into some sort of complex saga of good intentions gone tragically wrong when the thief is a sufficiently high status person.