I agree with you on this. I work in finance, and one of the many hats I wear at a small shop is regulatory analyst (basically, I run/create the specialized repo

I agree with you on this. I work in finance, and one of the many hats I wear at a small shop is regulatory analyst (basically, I run/create the specialized reports when FINRA, SEC, etc come knocking). +300 years seems excessive, but the financial penalties seem apt: forfeit your ill-gotten gains plus a topper. An aside: I've always found sentences such as 300 years to be absurd (unless they run concurrent). Why not just call it life and be done with it? Or, is the judge trying to make a statement like the judge in Texas that recently set bail at $4 billion for an accused murder (who turned his self in)?