The business section of The New York Times had a fascinating profile of Michael Kines on June 24. "Michael who?" Indeed. A lot of people will react that way. But attention falls on Michael Kines because of the upcoming trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, which I have discussed here. High Profile Trials to Watch for in 2023: Part One (jamesian58.blogspot.com) Bankman-Fried is to FTX what Ken Lay was to Enron and what Bernie Madoff was to Madoff Investment Securities. People, including prosecutors, have unsurprisingly become very curious about Bankman-Fried's social/business networking. This brings us back to Kines. Kines was a typical southern California schmoozer, show biz adjacent. He parlayed a brief period working for former President Bill Clinton into success as a Hollywood agent (in which capacity he apparently got to know everybody in that world, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Larry David, etc.). From that he moved into another status pos...