Let's not forget extradition is in Bahamian jurisdiction. The Bahamian politicians will most likely want their cut and stall extradition, and to do that they can either 1) shake down FTX leaders or 2) cut a deal with US extradition courts for cash. I don't see 2) working out since the case is so public. There wont be a snatch and grab either. I don't see a extradition until all the local cash is gone from FTX leaders and the Bahamians lose interest which could be years if not a decade. I bet the Bahamians already took FTX leaders passports and are seizing properties.
"US blacklisting Bahamas with the various tools at its disposal isn’t worth it for Bahamas."
Really for SBF? Removing financial systems? I think this is a far stretch. Fraudsters are held up in extradition messes all the time. The US doesn't change international policy for a single case (usually).
We "overpayed" for her and everyone knows it. Getting taken advantage of is kind of the opposite of putting pressure on another country to make them do something that's a crap deal for them.
Depends on optics. This is controlled by executive branch and if they want portray themselves as hard on corruption, they’ll do it. You’ll see this on Americans arrested overseas. If it makes the media, the executive branch will flex its power. Just happened today with the basketball player caught with drugs in Russia.
SBF, the name of the visible head, is as good a collective label for the network of individual criminals and the many dozens of companies they used in their crimes as FTX, just one of the companies, is.
Except FTX is already a collective label, SBF is not.
Using SBF as a collective is a confusing and incorrect. If you want to use it as part of a collective label, you could use "SBF & co.", "SBF et al" or similar conventions for creating a collective label from a singular one.
