Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court Highlight

It’s difficult not to feel some sympathy for parents facing the reality that their son will spend 25 years in prison, and who understand that they may not live to see him released. But while their grief and desperation is understandable, their response — publicly attacking the judge, inserting themselves into their son’s legal schemes, and launching a scattershot pardon campaign across cable news and Substack — has accomplished nothing except to tarnish their own reputations and demonstrate precisely the kind of entitlement and inability to accept consequences that got their son into trouble in the first place.