Michael Lewis’ depiction of the indicted crypto kingpin is already stirring controversy.
In a stroke of transcendently good luck for Michael Lewis, halfway into reporting his latest book on former crypto billionaireOn Tuesday, just as Bankman-Fried’s trial was commencing in New York, Lewis released the biography, which paints its subject as a frenetic, emotionless, and largely well-intentioned genius.
This was perhaps prescient, considering that his former girlfriend Caroline Ellison—who ran his hedge fund—later pleaded guilty to federal charges and is expected to testify against him in his trial. In 2021, as Ellison and Bankman-Fried were contemplating their entanglement , he confided to her that, “In a lot of ways I don’t really have a soul,” adding, “there’s a pretty decent argument that my empathy is fake, my feelings are fake, my facial reactions are fake.
for engaging in possible witness tampering this summer—Bankman-Fried’s parents got him a German shepherd guard dog, Sandor, that had been “trained to kill on command.” One problem: the dog was trained in German, and Bankman-Fried did not know the commands . Lewis grew concerned about the unlikely but plausible scenario in which the animal turned on its owner, writing, “it would have been very Sam Bankman-Fried to have been eaten by his own guard dog.
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