- Charles Hoskinson said people in elite circles are trying to get Sam Bankman-Fried a public exoneration.
- The Cardano co-founder said Michael Lewis’s book and the New York Times report painted Bankman-Fried in a sympathetic way.
- Hoskinson said the empathetic portrayal of Bankman-Fried shows “how profoundly corrupt things have become.”
Amidst the ongoing Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) trial, Charles Hoskinson, Cardano network co-founder, said in a recent post on X (formerly Twitter) that influential people with connections to Bankman-Fried may be trying to help him avoid conviction.
According to Hoskinson, the recent book by Michael Lewis is more of an apology tour than a truthful portrayal of Bankman-Fried. He noted that the New York Times took a similar approach when reporting on the FTX founder.
The biography by Michael Lewis, titled “Go Infinite,” detailed the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried. However, the author has been accused of painting a sympathetic image of Sam Bankman-Fried as a “genius weirdo” whom nobody properly understood. Likewise, recent reports raised an alarm that the book falls short in its portrayal of Web3 and crypto technologie…
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