The US generally has much longer prison terms than most of the rest of the world. Compared to sentences for crimes of different/lesser severity in the US, more

The US generally has much longer prison terms than most of the rest of the world. Compared to sentences for crimes of different/lesser severity in the US, more than 10 years is completely sane and, indeed, fair. If you have a problem with US sentencing culture, as a moral and a political issue you should probably not start with rich well-connected scammers.