That was fast. The wretch was convicted of all seven charges. Jury deliberated for four and a half hours. There are more charges he'll be tried for in March, apparently.
Well, good luck to him in prison. Maybe he can teach math. Poor devil.
From an article in The New Yorker from September. The reporter talked with Bankman-Fried's mother, Barbara Fried:
I asked whether she had ever felt compelled to ask her son if he’d done any of the things he’d been charged with. She replied no—she didn’t need to ask. Her son was incapable of dishonesty or stealing, she said. “Sam will never speak an untruth,” she went on. “It’s just not in him.”
I am reminded of the words of comedian Andy Kindler when he was the judge on Kids Court.
"Kids!" he said, "You've got to work on your lying!"
Sam Bankman-Fried grew up without ever learning that people may not believe him whether he's lying or not. It may explain why he was blathering away in interviews long before the trial. He said in one that his lawyers were pleading with him to shut up.
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