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Why did Caroline Ellison do it?
When being a people pleaser goes wrong.
The letters submitted on Ellison’s behalf emphasized that she was a good, kind person — focusing on her volunteering, the money she donated, her selflessness, and her perfectionist streak. In particular, when it came to the spreadsheets of doom — the forged balance sheets that essentially sealed Bankman-Fried’s fate — it was Ellison found the document and alerted prosecutors to it. You can imagine someone else hitting the bricks — after all, Ellison’s old job at Jane Street probably would have opened doors to a lot of other places if she’d been able to handle being briefly unemployed.
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