IANAL but I'm curious if intent is the deciding factor. Maddoff got 150 years because he knowingly operated a criminal enterprise and admitted to the whole thin

IANAL but I'm curious if intent is the deciding factor. Maddoff got 150 years because he knowingly operated a criminal enterprise and admitted to the whole thing eventually. His sons even testified against him when they found out. Maddoff went to great extents to construct his criminal enterprise, operating a small boiler room out of the front office. If prosecutors can show that actual malice and intent were part of his motive then logic would follow he'd get a Maddoff-like sentence. If he's just the worlds biggest bumbling idiot that people put too much faith and money in then it'd be lesser. I'm not quite caught up to when SBF knew he'd started a criminal enterprise versus when he was making reckless decisions.