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That’s exactly what’s at the core of the request — if it was some rich friends of SBF, maybe they’d be happy to gift him the money — but the requirement is that the invidividuals providing the sureity be sufficiently at arm’s length that they would be able to influence him not to flee - so that they could get their money back.

For all we know at this point, they could be co-conspirators.

Isn't the point of journalism to find out what's happening instead of making assumptions about what's probably happening?

Old friend? The guys 20-something. How does he have "old friends" that can spring $250M for him overnight?

He's out on a personal recognizance bond. Nobody put up $250M

Can't know until you find out though.