SB(n)F gambled on a trial and his parents lost.

“Sam Bankman-Fried loved risk, and he loved to gamble. He knew that if he went to trial, there was a chance, however small, that he might walk away a free man. Pleading guilty meant guaranteed punishment, and probably prison time. And so he chose to gamble, not only with his own life, but with his parents’. . . . There is a reason most people won’t flip that coin: they aren’t selfish enough to gamble with other people’s lives.”