No Excuses for Sam Bankman-Fried

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Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today's podcast takes up the 25 year sentence for the $8 billion fraud committed by "effective altruist" Sam Bankman-Fried, and what his law-professor mother's effort to excuse away his criminal conduct tells us about the mindset of the leftist elite. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.
0:27.0	Today is Friday, March 29, 2024.
0:30.0	I'm John Poth Hort, the editor of Commentary magazine, just wanting to warn you that though that is the date we are actually taping this Thursday night March 28th, so we may have some confusion as I often say when we do this podcast the night before we may be confusing
0:47.2	dates a little bit and saying yesterday when we mean today or tomorrow we mean today and
0:52.1	you're just going to have to live with it and just suffer.
0:55.9	So that's what I had to report and now let me introduce my colleagues, executive editor
1:02.4	Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe Greenwald, hi Abe,
1:04.0	Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth,
1:08.0	Hi, John.
1:09.0	And media commentary columnist, Christine,
1:12.0	Christine, Hi, Christine Rosen.
1:12.8	Hi, Christine.
1:14.0	Hi, John.
1:15.0	Sam Bankman-freed, the head of Alameda Capital and the cryptocurrency exchange whose name is now eluding me sentenced today
1:31.6	yesterday once again with the timing problem, to 25 years in prison for the mishandling,
1:40.0	mislabeling, and outright extortion and theft of $8 billion, which he transferred from the
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