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Ken WhiteMe: Lord I wish we had something new and exciting for the Serious Trouble show tomorrow
SBF: [gets arrested]
Me: Okay now You're just showing off
Now I have to brush up on extradition procedure.
Long Truong@Popehat sounds like you should do some on the ground reporting, maybe an expensed trip to the Bahamas is in order.
Skeptiguy@Popehat Guessing that SBF will apply the same level of scrutiny to appointing his legal representatives as he did to his auditors.
Pro-se. I'm saying he will go pro-se.
Pro-se. I'm saying he will go pro-se.
Jonathan Marcantel@Skeptiguy @Popehat i started to rewrite To Anacreon in Heaven with appropriate lyrics beginning "Pro-se can you see..." but this damned post-covid brain fog is making it impossible.
Kevin Sours@Skeptiguy @Popehat
I dunno. I suspect it took a reasonable amount of thought and effort to find auditors willing to sign their names to absolute bullshit.
Though given his expressed views on lawyers, I expect a similar level of effort.
Luigi de Guzman@Popehat I am looking forward to the coming explainer, lol
Mastrn
Mike Smith@Popehat Think the podcast would expense a trip to the Bahamas? For research, obviously.
John Minnihan@Popehat lemme know if you need a clean passport
Schrödinger’s Batman@Popehat Puerto RICO
🦄 I Make Robots 🦄@SchrodingersBatman @Popehat Now there’s some proper shitposting to welcome the man
dorsilaw@Popehat I’m expecting you to respond to my disappointment that he was charged in SDNY (where transactions cleared) rather than ND Cal (where the business was before it moved offshore).
Nicholas WeaverWhat about the SDNY being a bunch of glory-seeking cowboys? SBF was going to testify remotely in front of a House committee tomorrow, which surely would have been an opportunity for him to implicate himself even more under the glare of some not very friendly questioning.
Oh, and here's the treaty, pretty damn not-getting-outta-it territory for SBF
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/94-922-Bahamas-Extradition-Treaty.pdf
Brian Dear@Popehat Is there, like, maybe, any tiny chance that SBF did… well… you know… like… did the… the… RICO?
Deadmule
Buffy Summers and Mr. Pointy@Popehat looking forward to the lawsplainer.
Pyperkub@Popehat Elon is trying to bring you back and extradite you from mastodon/postnews? ;)
Ben Slusky@Popehat No need, everyone else on the Internet is already an expert
@Popehat If he is remanded at Fox Hill it will be very unpleasant.
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@Popehat Did he get arrested? 🙏
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️
Janak J Parekh
Helchose
Paul Church@Popehat This could be the first time SBF has ever been referred to using the word "serious".
@Popehat the bonkers thing is, almost none of the sources talking about this are usable on Wikipedia. Daily Heil, Coindesk, etc.
@Skeptiguy @Popehat see further up. CNBC article link.
@jonmarcantel @Popehat CNBC is still tabloid-esque. Waiting on serious coverage. Also: I am long on popcorn, because fuck SBF.
@Skeptiguy @Popehat
I quite understand. Hang on.
“SBF’s arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition,” The [Government of Bahamas] statement said."
ABC:
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-bahamas-prosecutor/story?id=95105184
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/business/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-bahamas.html
@jonmarcantel @Popehat Good work, sir.
phnx, abandoned account@Skeptiguy @Popehat spot the wiki contributor?
Jeffrey Vagle@Popehat Perhaps now we’ll get that long-awaited jurisdiction discussion.
Ehuff@Popehat That (alt)bitcoin market taking a bath… welcome!
6H057rUNN3r@Popehat why didn't he just tell the authorities he's not really into being arrested
@Popehat You could always discuss the serious trouble your artistically- and intellectually-challenged co-host has gotten into by bashing two fine films, dismissing them as “chores.”
panthermodernI gotta know which
@panthermodern She Said and Tár, both absolutely excellent films—at least for anyone with more than a few functioning neurons.
gotcha, thank you sir!
@Popehat I want to apologize on behalf of us all for the much smaller serotonin kick our meagre boosts and shares bring. We are a poor people, but honest.
Dianne Hackborn@Popehat starts posting to Mastodon *and* SBF gets arrested? Happy holidays!
Live, Laugh, Lovecraft@Popehat he's just trying to steal your thunder
saw@Popehat Will Michael Lewis sit on his book through three years of federal trial or will he release it right away?
Nathaniel Swigger@Popehat very curious to see what kind of lawyers he can afford after his Monopoly money turned to dust
WrenI mean if you have that much pull with the Big Guy, please, wish for the orange fish.
ᴚ uɐᗡ@Popehat You're doin pretty good with this mastodon thingy 🔥
jamon@Popehat i listened to the preview episode Tweeting Through It. Loved your and Josh’s analysis of exactly what not say.. think you sold me on a subscription for part deux!
Mike Perham@Popehat was the US government not impressed with his playing video games while giving interviews? I don’t understand.
Chuck's Goat 
@Popehat If you need a soundclip, Molly White has a pearl. (Not sure if this will embed, link or completely mess up, but if it does, check @molly0xfff )
https://mastodon.coffee/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io/109503450685797650
Molly White (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video from my conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried earlier today: "Are you worried you might be detained if you stepped foot into the US?" SBF: "I don't believe I would be... at some point that's something I have to think harder about" welp
Steve Vlad@Popehat Your cup runneth over
Dan@Popehat let us know when you finish recording. Because chances are close to 100% that is when SBF will go on TV and do an interview doing his best Rudy incriminating everyone impression
Jason Wilson@Popehat what happens in the Bahamas stays in the Bahamas.
@jasonewilson @Popehat ...is what I'm sure SBF wishes was the actual policy on extradition there.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@Popehat SBF should have stolen classified government docs for his own "protection". 🙄
carbone@Popehat It could only be better if it was...
RICO!!