In 2021, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said that Sam Bankman-Fried, the now disgraced former head of FTX, embodied the “ethos of Miami.” Suarez was inadvertently right. Miami is a sunny place for shady people and Bankman-Fried’s shameless grift does indeed embody the corruption that is so commonplace in the city — a place where con artists, corrupt politicians, drug traffickers, money launderers…
