Did Michael Lewis get sucked in by Sam Bankman-Fried?

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Intriguingly, Lewis’ book began life in the before times and arguably ends there, too. That is, he met Bankman-Fried in late 2021, at the apex of his wealth and influence, and got sucked in. “His ambition was grandiose, but he wasn’t,” Lewis writes. “I was totally sold.” Once the indictments thundered down, Lewis scrambled to rewrite. Since his access to Bankman-Fried was already orders of magnitude greater than any other writer had, he automatically got a richer portrait. Lewis is known for giving readers such deep, emotionally driven stories that they often end up as Hollywood films, such as Moneyball...