We live in a world where successful grifters like Sam Bankman-Fried can rise to this level without a modicum of public scrutiny.

And yes, he was a self-conscious grifter. His quote yesterday after the FTX collapse:
“By this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us,” Vox reported he said.”

What else of grave importance don’t we know about, thanks to the secrecy veil that one can buy with huge amounts of money?