Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. Minimal heat? Depending on which judge he gets in the Southern district of New York, he could be looking at life in prison. For the charges he's currently facing, even if he cooperates he's looking realistically at no less than 20 years.
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  2.  @xSoulSethx  I think he was getting ready to flee and his parents who are both lawyers probably advised him to strongly consider doing so. He was in the Bahamas anyway, all he needed to do was get on a plane and go elsewhere. But no he can't be that stupid, three agencies were preparing a case against him at the same time but they were doing it quietly because of just how much of a flight risk they believed he was. Him doing those interviews flew in the face of the advice his lawyers were giving him. They basically told him that doing the interview circuit and taking responsibility dozens of times was about the dumbest thing he could possibly do. Now that he's facing criminal charges, that's going to bite him in the ass big time. For the charges he's looking at, like I said, he's looking at life in prison unless he gets one of the few "fair" judges in the Southern District court of New York. Most of them are actually quite strict.
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  3. It's basically like being a losing gambler... times 8 billion. That's really what he was doing, first off he lied when he said he wasn't going to use customer funds for anything but what he did was he took the money secretly, invested some of it when it wasn't rightfully his to do so, and he did it extremely recklessly as well so that when he did lose out, every penny he put into it was a losing gamble. It wasn't his money to do it with though. Then of course whispers start generating that there may not be enough capital for everyone to get their money out if they wanted to, and sure enough, whispers become panic really fast just like the market crash preceding the Great Depression and subsequent bank run where everyone was trying to get their money out at the same time only to find out that the bank didn't have enough money to grant them their withdrawals. If his gamble worked out like Coffeezilla said, everyone would be none the wiser and may even be singing his praises, but if it didn't... well, it didn't. And now he's caught. It's fraud. Depending on which judge he gets in the Southern District of New York court system, he could even get life in prison for this. At a minimum, he's getting 20 years. Anything over ~28 years in that court system is a life sentence.
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