Interesting. I was reading his bio and noticed the do-gooder activities he and his family are involved with. Funny how they end up defrauding people in the long run.
"Motivated largely by his own awareness of the discreditable nature of his secret behavior, the covert deviant develops a presentation of self that is respectable to a fault. His whole lifestyle becomes an incarnation of what is proper and orthodox."--Laud Humphreys
This is actually a common pattern. Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has given presentations where he says that charitable works is actually one of a handful of factors they look for when assessing a fraudulent company because the correlation is strong.
He stated he intended to give up to $1 billion to democrats.
Millions more went to various other people in power who will now decide the fate of SBF.
Sources:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/sam-bankman-fried-backtracks...
His Wikipedia page.