SBF is going to be nailed to the cross as an warning to others.
The case is a slam dunk, there are mountains of evidence, plenty of eager witnesses and prosecutors who would love to add his scalp to their collection. There's no way he's getting off on a technicality.
Yeah, and as much as he gave in political donations to all sorts of politicians in the past, since it looks like he won't be able to give any more in the future they have no reason for loyalty to try and influence anything behind the scenes.
I remember this quote here,
“Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past, you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.”
- Mario Puzo, Omerta.
In the book 48 Laws of Power from Robert Greene, Law 13 addresses this. If you held them by past deeds people will feel that they owe you something and nobody wants to owe anything to anyone. It is better instead to show them what they have to gain from now on.