<story><title>FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s two bond guarantors unsealed, ties to Stanford</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The sole purpose of bail is to ensure that the defendant shows up to trial. SBF is under electronically monitored house arrest. Given how high-profile the case is, it&amp;#x27;s likely that law enforcement is posted to monitor him directly. He&amp;#x27;s not going to flee the country in a shipping crate like Carlos Ghosn. In fact: to hear Ken White talk about it on Serious Trouble, given his recent conduct, it&amp;#x27;s much more likely that he&amp;#x27;s going to end up preparing his defense from inside an NYC jail cell.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re all obsessed with the details of SBF&amp;#x27;s bail because we&amp;#x27;re too bored, and looking for fun stories. The bail situation with SBF is the least interesting thing about the case.&lt;p&gt;By all means, dunk on the people making insurance payments to cover his bail! It&amp;#x27;s a weird thing to decide to do! But none of it has much to do with anything fundamental about the case.</text></comment>
<story><title>FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s two bond guarantors unsealed, ties to Stanford</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>“Ties” is putting it mildly.  $500k from&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Larry Kramer, who is president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and dean emeritus at Stanford Law School</text></comment>