Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and, most of all, the law. In today’s edition, Sam Bankman-Fried’s blame-the-lawyers trial strategy. Plus John D. Rockefeller v. Elon Musk, Gary Gensler, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Martin Shkreli, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, Selena Gomez, Johnny Depp, Zia Chishti, and more. But first…
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Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.
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Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and, most of all, the law.
In today’s edition, Sam Bankman-Fried’s blame-the-lawyers trial strategy. Plus John D. Rockefeller v. Elon Musk, Gary Gensler, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Martin Shkreli, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, Selena Gomez, Johnny Depp, Zia Chishti, and more.
But first…
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- Fox internal affairs: Following a series of costly libel lawsuits against Fox News, it seems that Fox Corp.’s board is now receiving briefings from the company’s ethics chief, Nicholas Trutanich, regarding...
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| S.B.F. Is Blaming It All on the Lawyers |
| Bankman-Fried is relying, in part, on a complicated and risky advice-of-counsel strategy. It might lead to one of the more dramatic courtroom moments in recent legal history. |
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| For years, Sam Bankman-Fried carefully cultivated an image as a disheveled prodigy who cared more about using crypto to uplift the poor than enriching himself. Of course, as it turned out, S.B.F. wasn’t just playing video games, giving away his money, and driving a Toyota Corolla, as has been widely reported. He was also spending millions of dollars to... |
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| Iger’s Buyers |
| Notes on the Disney fire sale and LVMH succession. |
| WILLIAM D. COHAN |
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| The Hunter Manhunt |
| Biden insider Michael LaRosa dishes on the ’24 messaging wars and more. |
| TARA PALMERI |
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| Elon’s Star Power |
| On Musk’s technological interventions in Ukraine and the limits of the public good. |
| BARATUNDE THURSTON |
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| Drew’s Blues |
| How the Drew Barrymore saga perfectly encapsulates the studio-streamers’ dilemma. |
| MATTHEW BELLONI |
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