[DuskStar]

> There's no upside to sparing him.

The upside to saying "yes I can be bought" is that people will give you boatloads of money.

[camgunz]

There's other ways to do that that don't involve exposing yourself to political and legal risk. You also don't want people to do what SBF did again; you want to incentivize an un-prosecutable (under current SCOTUS standards) quid pro quo, not become the beneficiary of an international financial scam bankrolling domestic political operations--that's the stuff of FBI/SEC/FEC investigations.