Did DOJ’s Sudden Arrest “Help” FTX Kid?

GW Prof Turley suggests Biden’s DOJ’s move to arrest FTX founder Sam hours before testifying before GOP House either curiously helped to prevent Qs of his DNC donations or showed striking overconfidence in fraud evidence already in hand.

So “shocked” was the criminal defense expert that he wrote an op ed for Fox News bemoaning how FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was “all set to testify before a House Committee this week” and bluntly opines Sam’s big mouth rattling on even more than it already has “would have been a dream for prosecutors.” The “suddenness” of the “unexpected” if not seemingly unusual arrest made Prof Turley marvel how “this is the first time that I can recall where prosecutors moved aggressively to stop a defendant from making self-incriminating statements. His testimony would have been entirely admissible and likely devastating at trial.”

So why would the Justice Dept move to stop “the self-inflicted damage” on a “major target who was about to voluntarily testify?” he asked. The professor wonders, as have others, that the Biden Administration may have been “eager to prevent questions about Bankman-Fried’s political contributions,” especially since he was the “second-highest donor to Dem causes in the last election cycle” and his momma is a Stanford law professor who heads a “major Democratic campaign fund.” In all fairness, Turley concedes, “it is also possible that the Justice Dept simply wanted to show the public that it was moving aggressively despite his close Democratic ties … and, besides, it may already have “secured sufficient evidence to satisfy the basis for charges.” And, yet, Turley wonders, could it have hurt to wait a few hours until Sam fell on his sword one more time before Congress?

Davd Soul