David Strom on this entirely-predictable exercise in Democrat Establishment Protection:

Nothing to see here. Move along.

That is the message from the prosecutor in the Sam Bankman-Fried case, as he notified the judge that the government would not be pursuing a trial in the charges not adjudicated in SBF's trial over defrauding customers.

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The charges that are dropped relate to bribery of politicians and illegal campaign contributions.

Quelle surprise.

What is so infuriating about this is obvious: it's not that SBF is getting off on these charges--how much time he spends in jail likely would not change much or at all; it's that all those bribed politicians and the ones who got illegal campaign contributions will completely avoid the public scrutiny that a trial of SBF would have brought.

Dropping the charges is about protecting the Establishment, not SBF. SBF is a minor beneficiary of the scheme to protect the people in power.

This is how the system works these days...

These days the elite is no longer even trying to pretend that there is equal justice under the law.

Correct.