I think by now they know that he is so deep in shit that it doesn't really matter if he continues talking.

there's no reason to assume his lawyer has scruples edit- ah, i see Cohen and Gresser have recently represented one Ghislaine Maxwell

And quite a few not being paid to represent him too!

>It's shocking the number of people who believed this guy is smart was, given how incredibly stupid every single thing he does now is. One of the interesing things you'll noticed if you read Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic (or, more practically, [looked at a decent riff of it like this one](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-wizard-of-woah-and-irrational-methods-of-irrationality.337233/)) is that his "rational Harry Potter" is an *incredibly bad* judge of character. He gets instantly swept away by Quirrell (who- in this version- is basically an open fascist and uses hazing as a means of classroom discipline) because the DADA flatters him and appeals to his ideology, and keeps trying to bring out the 'good side' in Draco (who outright jokes about raping another student) until Draco eventually rewards his efforts with physical violence. He looks down on most of the actually decent people in the setting purely because they disagree with him. He ends up going on a mission to break someone out of the wizard equivalent of Guantanamo Bay because Quirrell told him a (possibly entirely false) sob story about how she was just manipulated all along, and basically doesn't even bother keeping an eye on her afterwards. Like, I know Eliezer handwaves every serious flaw his version of HP has as an intentional choice, but the sort of mistakes he makes and the reasons why he makes them go beyond the character having poor social skills.

And the funniest is his stupid decision you describe is to write about how incredibly stupid he was not controlling Alameda, understanding risk etc, rather than the criminal mastermind everyone paints him to be. So which is it: is he so fucking stupid we could start to believe that indeed he barely understood economics enough to bankrupt a company but not much more, or is he instead an evil Machiavel, able to appear God-inspired in VC talks and bumbling degenerate in fraud inspections ? I was listening to Scaramoochi who lost some Saudi money in the venture, for some fucking weird reason I forgot, and while I was like "okay, if I was beating my wife and living like a royal in the middle of the desert, maybe I could listen to that guy, he's half competent" and he described how entangled he became with the guy, learned to like him before losing everything in absolute shock surprise. He was absolutely not defending him, he realized the business was empty, but he didnt talk of an idiot there I felt.

“In November everyone finally realized that we were insolvent”.

He denies everything, but might have admitted a new one https://newsletter.protos.com/issues/sbf-is-being-deceitful-again-1515182#:\~:text=The%20chart%20also,charged%20with%2C%20right