A licence to commit fraud
Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian
Sam Bankman-Fried has been declared one of America’s biggest swindlers, says Aditya Chakrabortty. But the “same groups who today come to bury the boy billionaire yesterday praised him without qualification”. US politicians Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Cory Booker, Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi accepted substantial sums from him; celebrities such as Larry David, Gisele Bündchen and Naomi Osaka were paid to endorse his trading exchange, FTX. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton attended
