> SBF was convinced to come to the US from the Bahamas
Because he thought he could stay out of jail there.
> US officials smuggled in a new passport for at least one FTX employee in order to get them back to the US, presumably to give evidence against SBF. Who can pull those kinds of strings?
Source?
"Smuggled" implies it was done without the consent or knowledge of the Bahamas government. Otherwise, it's standard U.S. Marshals stuff.
Source: "Going Infinite" by Michael Lewis. Chapter 9.
> Gary never said when he would leave, or how he would leave—which was an
issue, as the Bahamas had taken his passport. On Sunday night, without a further word to
anyone, he just slipped, unnoticed, out of the Orchid penthouse. The lawyer who spirited
him off arranged with US authorities to supply him with a second passport, so that they
might smuggle him back to the United States before the government of the Bahamas
knew what had happened.
Lewis was where? With the Bahamas authorities and the lawyer who got the passport and the U.S. authorities who provided it to them? And the supposed fugitive while he left?
He makes a complex allegation that seems to have been strung together from observations, which I trust him to be relaying honestly, and suppositions given things he didn't see, e.g. that this wasn't coordinated with Nassau, which I'm sceptical of.
Because he thought he could stay out of jail there.
> US officials smuggled in a new passport for at least one FTX employee in order to get them back to the US, presumably to give evidence against SBF. Who can pull those kinds of strings?
Source?
"Smuggled" implies it was done without the consent or knowledge of the Bahamas government. Otherwise, it's standard U.S. Marshals stuff.