Law prof Jonathan Turley is on fire today. To start with he had the obvious reaction to the SBF arrest and charges: Here are a few excerpts from Turley’s post. There doesn’t appear to be much of a mystery to this move: The arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried yesterday was sudden and unexpected in light of Bankman-Fried’s plan to testify before Congress. As a criminal defense attorney, my reaction to the arrest last night remains unchanged:
If Bankman is offered some kind of plea deal by the Government, there will be no trial...In this event, there will be no public testimony by witnesses, let alone by the defendant. There will be no testimony regarding possible bad acts of associates and co-conspirators. Plea bargain...conviction...everything else, down the memory hole.
The question occurs to me: how many people would have to be imprisoned or otherwise removed from the field of play in order clean up all the messes we have? I'm not talking about the laundry list of all the petty miscreants and jerks who take orders. I'm talking about the ones whose power protects the whole fetid mess. Do you think we are talking about thousands (I don't). Hundreds? (maybe). Dozens (at the very least). I'm beginning to wonder if we're ever going to learn what the number is.
It was my first thought, too- they had to find a way to prevent him from answering any inconvient questions that might get posed by Republicans on the committee. Every other interview Bankman-Fried has given to this point were only conducted by friendly interviewers- that was about to change today, so he had to be silenced.
The DOJ controls the investigation, the charges and the prosecution which allows them to control all publicly released information.
If Bankman is offered some kind of plea deal by the Government, there will be no trial...In this event, there will be no public testimony by witnesses, let alone by the defendant. There will be no testimony regarding possible bad acts of associates and co-conspirators. Plea bargain...conviction...everything else, down the memory hole.
The question occurs to me: how many people would have to be imprisoned or otherwise removed from the field of play in order clean up all the messes we have? I'm not talking about the laundry list of all the petty miscreants and jerks who take orders. I'm talking about the ones whose power protects the whole fetid mess. Do you think we are talking about thousands (I don't). Hundreds? (maybe). Dozens (at the very least). I'm beginning to wonder if we're ever going to learn what the number is.
Sure is tiring how globalists use the government to protect themselves from the crimes they commit.
Bingo Mr. Turley.
Absolutely transparent move at shutting him up, to protect his "friends" on the Hill.
It was my first thought, too- they had to find a way to prevent him from answering any inconvient questions that might get posed by Republicans on the committee. Every other interview Bankman-Fried has given to this point were only conducted by friendly interviewers- that was about to change today, so he had to be silenced.
And to get him back to the US where he can off himself in prison a la Epstein.
Either that or Arkancide