https://www.thefp.com/p/humiliating-cross-examination-sam-ba...
“Did you say in private, ‘Fuck regulators?’ ”
“Did you call some customers ‘dumb motherfuckers?’ ”
“Did you fly to the Super Bowl in a private plane?”
“Most FTX customers did not have a line of credit, correct?”
“Do you deny that Alameda had a $65 billion line of credit?”
And on, and on, and on.
Under the circumstances, SBF’s wisest course would have been to just say yes—or yep—to her questions. And sometimes he did that. But just as often, he chose to dance around the question, to quibble about the phrasing, or say that he couldn’t remember the details. And every time he did that—every single time—Sassoon projected an email or video or a spreadsheet onto the screen, showing that he had done exactly what she was accusing him of doing. Which then gave the jurors another look at the evidence while reminding them that SBF was being something less than forthright. You’d think this MIT graduate would wise up, but he never did.
(He even equivocated on whether he had taken a private plane to the Super Bowl—to which Sassoon responded by presenting a photograph of SBF fast asleep in the embrace of a comfy chair on a private jet. In the overflow room, we burst into laughter.)