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Fortune
Jeff John Roberts

SBF is unraveling before our eyes, and it's not pretty

Sam Bankman-Fried (Credit: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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.

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