[DriverDaily]

> he's naive enough that he thinks that will work in court under the eye of the whole media

I mean his publicity tour immediately after FTX went under worked pretty well for a while. He got Kevin O’ Leary to blame CZ in front of congress. And Michael Lewis painted a pretty positive picture. He talked to everyone he could and the vast majority of the media were not sure if he did or did not commit a crime.

All he has to do is convince the jury to have a reasonable doubt.

[hef19898]

That Michael Lewis did this still puzzles me.

[fatbird]

Me too, since in _The Big Short_ he was so good at untangling a lot of complicated financial machinery to say “this is what was going wrong” in very tangible terms. That he doubts SBF et al actually committed a crime is boggling.

The best explanation I’ve seen is that the book was mostly done when it all came crashing down, and SBF was already the befuddled hero and herald of a new age, and Lewis just didn’t want to rewrite the whole damn thing.

[nytesky]

In his couric interview he keeps calling SBF a “kid”. He’s a 30 year old man.

But I know Lewis has gone through some personal tragedy, and I think it has softened his gaze, at least upon young people who act like a foundling in Brave New World.

[cjbgkagh]

It’s the build exploit cycle of trust, Michael Lewis has built up trust that he can now exploit. Though SBF is so far beyond the pale that instead of trusting SBF more I just trust Michael Lewis much less.

[kalupa]

never let the truth get in the way of a good paycheck

[baggachipz]

Kevin O'Leary, not so much. :)