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In the Bahamas, a lingering sympathy for Sam Bankman-Fried

From Washington to Wall Street, the disgraced FTX founder is now persona non grata. Not so in the island group he called home for a year before being arrested.

Rob Copeland

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Nassau, Bahamas | There’s a popular reggaeton phrase, “money can’t done”, meaning that fabulous wealth makes its own rules. In the Bahamas recently, it has become a gleeful reference to the once high-flying resident Sam Bankman-Fried.

From Washington to Wall Street, Bankman-Fried is now persona non grata. Politicians, investors and cryptocurrency types all but compete to declare most vigorously how little they think of Bankman-Fried, the fallen founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

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