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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by TrackerFF on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:27PM (#39853751)
Tbh, a bunch of American (high profile) lawyers had estimated that he'd only get a couple of years, max, as he had no prior convictions - and the nature of the case.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Thursday March 28, 2024 @04:29PM (#39856934)
Those slap-on-the-wrist punishments are reserved for members of the already-wealthy elite.

SBF was an outsider who stole from these people.

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by EasyMark on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:05PM (#39854433)
I think they must be unfamiliar with the federal judicial system which is almost always on the conservative side of sentencing unless there were some extremely extenuating circumstances. There were none here, this was straight up greed and grift on Sam's part.
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