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Alright, you're cynical and conspiratorial.

Even assuming it's true that Epstein didn't take his own life, SBF holds nowhere near the level of significance to justify such actions. The matters he's been associated with pale in comparison to Epstein and the potential political fallout is extremely minor in comparison.

The grim, yet in all probability accurate, reality is that confronting the prospect of spending numerous decades incarcerated is an exceedingly tough pill to swallow, particularly for individuals who've enjoyed rather comfortable existences and anticipated its continuation.

If, by any chance, we find SBF in a cell dead it's significantly more probable that this is the underlying cause.

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Perhaps you hadn’t heard he was the second biggest donor for the 2022 elections. Might be spicy.

“Bankman-Fried contributed more than $70 million to election campaigns in less than 18 months, placing him among the nation’s top political donors. He personally gave at least $40 million to politicians and political action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mostly to Democrats and liberal-leaning groups, making him the second overall top donor to Democrats, only behind George Soros, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.”

https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donatio...

His prospects of achieving even a fraction of his prior earnings in the future are exceedingly slim. Even under the assumption that he manages to avoid conviction on all counts, he will unquestionably be prohibited from assuming any director or officer role within a company ever again.

Should you hold the view that politicians are entirely self-serving and akin to human cockroaches, there's minimal justification for endorsing him or expending even an iota of political capital on him moving forward. Conversely, there's ample incentive to distance oneself from him at present while fervently attempting to retain possession of the funds he has already contributed.

Formerly an asset, he has now transformed into nothing more than a liability that can be side-stepped by just feigning ignorance and maintaining distance.

That's already public knowledge though, what further benefit is there from killing him

> The grim, yet in all probability accurate, reality is that confronting the prospect of spending numerous decades incarcerated is an exceedingly tough pill to swallow, particularly for individuals who've enjoyed rather comfortable existences and anticipated its continuation.

Yep, even with their omertà vows, that's what finally got the New York mob to start turning on each other. Nobody, even those street-hardened guys, wanted to spend decades or the rest of his life in prison, so they started cooperating with prosecutors.

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