
Anyone who's watched Law & Order knows that, when you're in legal trouble, the first thing you do is stop talking. Shut your trap. Lawyer up. Don't give the cops any more ammo. Sam Bankman-Fried must have watched different shows.
In the face of mounting investigations over the accounting shenanigans that led to the collapse of his $30 billion FTX empire, Bankman-Fried not only kept blabbing but made a series of admissions that can only accelerate his pathway to prison. Those include DMs to a Vox reporter that include "fuck the regulators" and various musings on victims deserving what befalls them because the strong are supposed to rule the world. Or something.