[camgunz]

There are three reasons I think your post here is naive (maybe too combative here, sorry):

- politically, the smart thing to do is bury SBF. There's no upside to sparing him.

- throwing the book at him sends a message to all other would be scammers, again at no cost

- powerful people can be powerfully vindictive when you expose them to risk and embarrassment

I agree Democrats shouldn't have taken SBF money, or any crypto money. It's always been an obvious scam and it's incredibly bad for the planet. But I admit the facts are esoteric, and we really wanted to beat Trump, because he's also really bad for the planet (remember that one time he spent years weakening NATO and building up Putin, and then Putin invaded Ukraine and set the world economy on its head and threatened to starve/freeze hundreds of millions of people?) No good option here, is what I'm saying.

[DuskStar]

> There's no upside to sparing him.

The upside to saying "yes I can be bought" is that people will give you boatloads of money.

[camgunz]

There's other ways to do that that don't involve exposing yourself to political and legal risk. You also don't want people to do what SBF did again; you want to incentivize an un-prosecutable (under current SCOTUS standards) quid pro quo, not become the beneficiary of an international financial scam bankrolling domestic political operations--that's the stuff of FBI/SEC/FEC investigations.