> If only Sam wasn't caught

They levered into wrong-way bets into the crypto winter while stealing the money for yachts and effective-altruism philanthropy and political donations. This wasn’t a Madoff-type leak and confession. Their risk setting didn’t permit a world in which they didn’t blow up.

Nah, he would've spent more and more and more.

Whether that would constitute restitution or furtherance of a Ponzi scheme is open for debate, I guess...