FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison(businessinsider.com)
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FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison
https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-prison-release-ftx-sam-bankman-fried-2025-12
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Nearly all of the photos of her I can find are of her walking to and from a car. The others (which were very few and only one of which I thought was a good photo) seem like social media pics that news agencies probably couldn't publish. That does make more challenging to get a good picture of her, but I have a hard time believing they couldn't have done better that the one at the top of the article. It's particularly bad.
It's not their fault: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
just looks like a normal person who is not posing for a photo, not some influencer
To me it looks like when you take a bunch of pictures while someone is talking and some of them look extremely awkward because their mouth in a weird shape.
So find a better one: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
I analyze these in another comment.
How attractive you find this woman really isn't material to how good or bad a photo is. If you've never seen a horrible photo of yourself, it's because your friends deleted them.
How attractive you find this woman really isn't material to how good or bad a photo is. If you've never seen a horrible photo of yourself, it's because your friends deleted them.
Non responsive. All of her photos are bad ... this one, catching her moving, actually makes her look better than most.
And what photos I've seen of myself is irrelevant, and "your friends deleted them" is dumb ... most of the photos I've seen of myself were taken by me, and many of those were on something called "film". (And yes, of course some are distorted because I was moving, the angle or lighting was bad, etc. ... none of this is relevant.)
I won't respond further.
And what photos I've seen of myself is irrelevant, and "your friends deleted them" is dumb ... most of the photos I've seen of myself were taken by me, and many of those were on something called "film". (And yes, of course some are distorted because I was moving, the angle or lighting was bad, etc. ... none of this is relevant.)
I won't respond further.
I think you don't understand photography.
or cause I’m just that good looking (I am)
This one is NOT normal person not posing. This one happen to be "exaggeratedly surprised face expression" phote.
That's just how she looks. Hence all the "pin the weasel" mockery.
there are some but they required this amount of processing https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...
literally my first thought every time I read an article about her. She's either the least photogenic person ever, or this is intentional.
Find a better photo: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
Perhaps she is just unattractive…
I was going to push back at that assumption ... until I looked her up: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=38054e44cdb63b92&sxsrf...
Some people are just not aesthetically pleasing.
So you can always get away with fraud?
She's still serving her sentence. Just not in prison.
As for why it is so short, that's her reward for helping them get SBF.
As for why it is so short, that's her reward for helping them get SBF.
What's amazing is that they needed her help.
There's a reason SBF was arrested and tried within a year while other complex financial fraud cases take years to get a conviction.
Dec 11, 2008: Madoff arrested; scheme revealed.
March 12, 2009: Madoff pleads guilty to 11 federal felonies.
June 29, 2009: Sentenced to 150 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $17.179 billion.
March 12, 2009: Madoff pleads guilty to 11 federal felonies.
June 29, 2009: Sentenced to 150 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $17.179 billion.
In Madoff's case, he confessed to his sons. So again, this was a case of an insider having the goods, not the result of a speedy investigation.
Your timeline is correct, but once Madoff was confronted he just confessed and everything moved forward.
I mean yeah Madoff confessed and made the case open and shut.
SBF entered a Not Guilty plea but Ellison for all intents and purposes entered a Guilty plea on his behalf with her co-operation.
SBF entered a Not Guilty plea but Ellison for all intents and purposes entered a Guilty plea on his behalf with her co-operation.
I mean, the guy was constantly high on nootropics and they had no idea what actual investments FTX made. I'd imagine most of the time was just spent untangling that web, his case was more or less a slam dunk.
The interesting question is, will her career/business ventures suffer from here onwards?
Hopefully people recognize that while SBF lost a bunch of money on one poor investment (her), Ellison lost a bunch of money on many poor investments.
She's probably doomed in traditional investment circles but there's always crypto!
She's probably doomed in traditional investment circles but there's always crypto!
Curious how much of her ill-gotten gains she will keep.
It's hard to keep up a skin care routine in the can.
From being one of the richest men, to being sold to a lifetime of prison by your mid gf. What a wild ride!
There is no honor among thieves, and there is even less honor in women who often turn out to be legal thieves.
That should be a warning to any man, but of course that's not politically correct to say.
That should be a warning to any man, but of course that's not politically correct to say.
Honour evolved from the tendency to stay within a group. When you are in a group, your chances of survival increase. But in a group you also have to stand up for you comrades - leading to a feeling of honour. Women just end up with the winning team. It's much easier for a woman to ditch a losing group and join the winning one. That's why honour has not evolved in women as opposed to men.
Yes, I entirely agree. Even without being part of a group, women will support you as long as you are winning or at least appear to be winning. But the moment your position becomes precarious, they'll just leave.
There are evolutionary reasons for that: women can't side with someone who won't be able to defend them since they don't have the strength to defend themselves. But nowadays you can't say that because of feminism and identity politics.
That's just how things are, and why I think men should always be careful about the trust they put in women around them. They are much more likely to throw you under the bus than even a man who dislikes you.
There are evolutionary reasons for that: women can't side with someone who won't be able to defend them since they don't have the strength to defend themselves. But nowadays you can't say that because of feminism and identity politics.
That's just how things are, and why I think men should always be careful about the trust they put in women around them. They are much more likely to throw you under the bus than even a man who dislikes you.
At the end of the day she and the other members of the board who took the plea bargain are basically keeping most of the money, right?
I know I'm basically in conspiracy territory here, but I can't stop thinking this was planned well beforehand and SBF was just the biggest moron they could find as the fall guy. Like, if what they say about him is remotely true they could've planned everything while he was playing LoL during meetings or something.
I know I'm basically in conspiracy territory here, but I can't stop thinking this was planned well beforehand and SBF was just the biggest moron they could find as the fall guy. Like, if what they say about him is remotely true they could've planned everything while he was playing LoL during meetings or something.
That said, when the movie is inevitably released they'll probably cast Scarlett Johansson or Cailee Spaeny as her.