Those NY Times links that you have been providing suck.

NYT articles are behind paywalls.

Here's some links in OmegaStarScream's post in another thread:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419710.msg61480281#msg61480281

As far as suiciding himself.. SBF seems way more unstable.. but yeah of course, the connection that you are making has to do with how much SBF might know, and the theory that Epstein knew too much.. which yes, that seems to be a valid angle.. and I doubt that SBF knows too much.... just a fucking dumb kid bribing to get political influence and achieving it... so that dirt may likely end up coming out.. no one likes it when politician fawn over schemes like this that are so obviously corrupt, and some of them are likely going to find it necessary to change their tunes a bit, at least in terms of recognizing the outrageous bullshit that was going on in terms of attempts to buy influence and actually buying influence (which is so far alleged as ONLY one charge.. yet we will see how much some of that information ends up getting unravelled).. like I mentioned earlier.. I give little shits about which side this is on, and I do not see it as one side versus the other.. but just a bunch a bullshit when there are these kinds of buying of influence behaviors... and yeah, maybe I don't know enough at this time if some individuals might be wanting to skew matters to protect their own heads from rolling if the evidence is coming out too specifically in regards to involvement of some specific individuals.