Mark Karpeles is not currently incarcerated and is busying himself by taunting the twitterverse.
https://news.bitcoin.com/inside-scoop-mark-karpeles-release/
Oh wow, that news totally passed me by. The knowledge that he was in jail had a definite positive impact on my quality of life.
Re:Bitfinex Interim Update
by dhfromkorea on Sunday August 07, 2016 @08:02AM
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wow, it was perhaps light grey but knowing that, now it's almost black. Thanks for sharing. :-)
edit: Well regardless of that being the case, why would an attacker not withdraw all the funds they can lay their hands on?
Many people seem to believe the bitcoin-exchange-as-a-scam thing is worthwile, but I don't think it really is. Karpeles is in jail, and will be for a very long time, and I've heard he doesn't enjoy his jail time much.
The identities of these people are known, their spending can be tracked. I can't see how the life of a exchange scammer is in anyway more attractive than that of a straightforward exchange runner. What are they going to do, cash out a couple of million somewhere and emigrate to South America? They could do the same simply by selling their exchange. Besides, Dread Pirate Roberts showed that emigrating is not really attractive to many people, even when not doing so is a terrible idea.