no, he's not the fall guy. the dumbass has been doing a damage control tour for his personal image by portraying himself as a brainless mark that just wasn't paying attention. in the process, journalists have pried answers out of him that constitute an admission to fraud. his whole inner circle is going to jail - the publicly available information incriminates not only him but the whole upper echelons of his trading firm (Alameda). he threw them under the bus for insider trading weeks ago.