I was wondering why SBF seemingly behaved like an innocent man. Giving interviews, talking to podcasters, remaining at his residence.
Why didn’t he make a run for it?
If he did take all those billions as was claimed, why didn’t he move to a country that doesn’t extradite or just move off the grid for a couple years?
Was he burnt out? complacent? drugs?
Or did he never have that money in the first place?
I think there’s one major flaw here:
You’re thinking about this as an average human.
When you have insane amounts of money, you get what you want.
He likely shopped around high price lawyers, but since he’s used to being told he’s right and a genius. He would have hired a law firm that agreed with him and said he’d be fine.
They likely knew better, but told him what he wanted to hear and took his money with a smile.
So he fell into the whole “yes-man-trap”… It takes somebody who is intelligent/self::aware to avoid that pitfall