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I wish we, as a society, could decide whether M is thousand or million and then only use it to represent that one concept. From the headline I initially assumed his bail was only $250,000 and I don’t think I’m the only one in this thread to have made that mistake.
I wish we, as a society, could decide whether M is thousand or million and then only use it to represent that one concept. From the headline I initially assumed his bail was only $250,000 and I don’t think I’m the only one in this thread to have made that mistake.
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How many bail bondsmen have $225M lying around and why would they risk it on SBF who is a major flight risk?
Probably very few can guarantee that much. But bondsmen don't have to just cut you loose with zero oversight. For a small slice of the $25m they can hire a team to follow him around 24/7. I assume they also put him in a ankle tracker and have him checking in on a strict schedule. All of this cuts into their profit so it's only as risky as they are cheap about monitoring him.
Can they physically detain him? Or just report to the authorities?
His ex-girlfriend and CEO of Alameda really put the nail in the coffin. Turned on him for 250K$ bail, forfeiture of all assets and basically no prosecution (except some taxes) as long as she co-operates. Probably dropped the entire playbook of Sam and made the case irrefutable and ironclad. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23495436/crypto-coope...
What do you mean no prosecution? She’s going to be a convicted felon. Just because there isn’t going to be a trial doesn’t mean she’ll have zero consequences.
If she can semi-credibly claim to be mostly ignorant, and cooperates energetically with prosecutors, anything can happen.
I wish we, as a society, could decide whether M is thousand or million and then only use it to represent that one concept. From the headline I initially assumed his bail was only $250,000 and I don’t think I’m the only one in this thread to have made that mistake.
I wish we, as a society, could decide whether M is thousand or million and then only use it to represent that one concept. From the headline I initially assumed his bail was only $250,000 and I don’t think I’m the only one in this thread to have made that mistake.
I'm pretty sure you are. I've never seen M being used for thousand.
i would not expect that to be the case in this context. you would also probably never mix roman numerals and arabic numerals like that.
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Had to give up their home for the bond? edit: i.e., it is far more likely to be a 25M home than a 250M home, because I've never heard of a 250M home.
Bail is a security - you only actually lose the asset securing bail if you abscond.
I feel sorry for his parents - legal fees is going to financially wipe them out and any plans for retirement. I'd rather stick to my mediocre returns of my money market accounts than this crypto forex NFT nonsense.
I wish we, as a society, could decide whether M is thousand or million and then only use it to represent that one concept. From the headline I initially assumed his bail was only $250,000 and I don’t think I’m the only one in this thread to have made that mistake.
I'm pretty sure you are. I've never seen M being used for thousand.
I wish we, as a society, could decide whether M is thousand or million and then only use it to represent that one concept. From the headline I initially assumed his bail was only $250,000 and I don’t think I’m the only one in this thread to have made that mistake.
I'm pretty sure you are. I've never seen M being used for thousand.