What I meant with by “he didn’t take it back” is a situation as follows:
The prosecution asks him if he made certain claims in the media. SBF says “yes” or “it appears that way” or whatever. The prosecution at some other point in the trial (maybe days earlier, maybe afterwards) asks some specific details about how FTX accounts were structured and how money was moved that contradicts what SBF said in the media. At some third point in the trial, they ask him if he deliberately lied to the media/gave false accounts about how things worked, and he said no. (Or, instead of asking him “did you tell the truth to the media?,” maybe they just asked him the same question the media asked him, and SBF stuck to his guns to avoid admitting that he mislead the media – similar outcome because he’s now saying the false thing in the trial setting.)
(I’m not actually sure this exact thing happened – it’s been a while since the trial. But I’d guess there were cases like that where you can look at different responses he gave to various questions and find that they’re in tension with things established by the prosecution from other witnesses. That’s probably also what the judge meant when he said that he found three instances of perjury? But I’m flagging that I haven’t looked at Kaplan’s elaborations on those three points. It’s more that I trust that Kaplan is likely to come to the right interpretations on those counts because when I followed the trial, it also felt to me like SBF was, at various points, getting trapped/caught in a web of questions, previous answers, and others’ testimony. In other words, I’m pretty sure I thought at various points “this is probably perjury established, if we believe this other witness?” – but I didn’t write those down, so I don’t remember the exact web of testimonies that would’ve conclusively trapped him.)
What I meant with by “he didn’t take it back” is a situation as follows:
The prosecution asks him if he made certain claims in the media. SBF says “yes” or “it appears that way” or whatever. The prosecution at some other point in the trial (maybe days earlier, maybe afterwards) asks some specific details about how FTX accounts were structured and how money was moved that contradicts what SBF said in the media. At some third point in the trial, they ask him if he deliberately lied to the media/gave false accounts about how things worked, and he said no. (Or, instead of asking him “did you tell the truth to the media?,” maybe they just asked him the same question the media asked him, and SBF stuck to his guns to avoid admitting that he mislead the media – similar outcome because he’s now saying the false thing in the trial setting.)
(I’m not actually sure this exact thing happened – it’s been a while since the trial. But I’d guess there were cases like that where you can look at different responses he gave to various questions and find that they’re in tension with things established by the prosecution from other witnesses. That’s probably also what the judge meant when he said that he found three instances of perjury? But I’m flagging that I haven’t looked at Kaplan’s elaborations on those three points. It’s more that I trust that Kaplan is likely to come to the right interpretations on those counts because when I followed the trial, it also felt to me like SBF was, at various points, getting trapped/caught in a web of questions, previous answers, and others’ testimony. In other words, I’m pretty sure I thought at various points “this is probably perjury established, if we believe this other witness?” – but I didn’t write those down, so I don’t remember the exact web of testimonies that would’ve conclusively trapped him.)