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by kryogen1c 1293 days ago
> the son of 2 tax experts

I'm no SBF apologist, but this is about the silliest argument you could make. What does what his parents did have anything to do with anything? I don't know anything about my parents' field of expertise.

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His parents are the beneficial owners of Bahamas real estate purchased with FTX funds, allegedly for “employee purposes”. This all looks really bad
His father, Joe Bankman, was heavily involved in FTX from very early on, being the firm's first lawyer. Here he is saying as much in his own words: https://youtu.be/MmmXUtRt6xo?t=2140
"Sbf worked closely with tax accountants and lawyers" is a very different argument than "sbf's parents knew about taxes"
oops private video now lol
His parents were both employed by the company and (imho) obviously still providing legal services in a world where all his lawyers dropped him.

He's not dumb, everyone is just taking the bait.