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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges by michaelt on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:01AM (#38129831)
> In your mind, are 19 murders equivalent to 7 counts of fraud?

Well, it was a very big fraud.

If the median prison sentence for nonviolent theft of a $30,000 car is 2 years, why shouldn't the prison sentence for stealing $3 billion be 200,000 years?

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges by pclmulqdq on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:06PM (#38130754)
Because that's not how any of this works.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges by ttymck on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:18PM (#38130911)
Surely it's because anything over ~100 years is the "maximum punishment": you die before you see freedom. Sentences are scaled to the human lifespan.