Is Michael Lewis Trashing His Reputation to Defend Sam Bankman-Fried?

We must always caveat this with just a few vastly essential particulars: nearly nobody exterior of writer Norton or Lewis’ circle has learn the e book, which publishes tomorrow, coinciding with the beginning of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, the place the disgraced founder is about to plead not responsible to a number of counts of fraud. It’s additionally forgivable that Lewis, like most reporters with direct entry to SBF, missed the crimson flags at FTX. Bankman-Fried was a media phenomenon, a self-made billionaire who stood for capitalism executed proper — represented by his political donations, charitable commitments and tacky apparel (even when he didn’t precisely come from rags).