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Why the Feds Chose Right Now to Bust Crypto’s Golden Boy

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DOJ was happy to let Sam Bankman-Fried talk himself into prison, but likely wanted to avoid the embarrassing optics of him testifying before Congress from his Bahamian villa.

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