This is a ridiculous piece. SBF isn’t some supergenius who is now executing a brilliant plan to avoid prison. He’s a naive idiot who is digging his own grave and will end up behind bars or dead. There is a 0% chance that he steals billions from rich and connected people and manages to skate because he blabs to a few people on social media and tosses a few pennies to some politicians. He stole billions, he’s going to prison if he doesn’t end up dead first.
Or he goes on the run soon and we never see him again. Someone who was fraudulently handling billions surely has a few millions somewhere that isn't accounted for. Other crypto scam artists have disappeared after taking funds. Ruja and Kwon are two I can think of and SBF had access to more money than either.
The article doesn't claim that he is a supergenius. He might be just dumb fuck giving those interviews. But anyway his one and only objective is avoiding jail and I think that is true. He doesn't give a fuck about customers etc, he only does what he does because he wants to avoid jailtime, whether it is dumb or smart is irrelevant.
There is no reason to believe that his parents' counsel was "do as many interviews as possible, admit to as much as possible, and try to convince the public you're both a genius and completely ignorant of the basics of running a business", as opposed to the standard legal advice of "shut up and wait and see what the charges and evidence are (and who you can plausibly blame it on)".
I imagine some very clever people advised him on compliance best practises and not gambling customer funds that he wasn't entitled to touch either, but that didn't mean his actions were the outcome of listening to that advice
oh my god, his parents are tax attorneys at a top law school, not like George Soros or something. All these responses about his parents indicate to me that a) they don't know what his parents do; b) they don't know what legal academics do; c) they don't know what lawyers do; d) they severely overestimate the social capital some tax professors have.
