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		MrPatan on Dec 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet? You forget the example the politicians want to make to other future donors. If you let him hang because he doesn't have more money to give you, nobody else is going to give you anything.

projektfu on Dec 2, 2022 [–]

On the other hand it's not good when they embarrass you, regardless of how much they might have put in. If you make it clear that being hung out to dry will be the punishment for embarrassment, maybe you'll get fewer of those donations.

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