They jumped the gun on SBF. Should have let him testify in congress. The timing makes it look like they didn’t want him to talk. May not be the case but it’s what it looks like.
1) SBF refused to testify right before he was due to anyways: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/former-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-f...
2) The charges he is looking at are so serious, I have a hard time believing it would matter that much whether he racked up one more charge of lying under oath
Edit: formatting
We know what he was going to say [1].
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2022/12/13/exclus...
It is over for SBF (barring a miracle). They weren't going to get anything from his congressional testimony.
And its literally not "baseless" if you ask if its coincidental that he was arrested the day before he was supposed to testify, why not let the hearing come and go and if he was a no show then arrest him?
They are just questions.
Regardless, SBF was charged for conspiracy, fraud, collusion, etc. Why are any questions that would throw suspicion on other parties to the conspiracy immediately shut down?
"In the United States, Congress can also grant criminal immunity (at the Federal level) to witnesses in exchange for testifying.[1]"