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Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
- Solvency 3y agoA tiny violin just started playing somewhere on Riker's island.
- colesantiago 3y agoGood. All crypto criminals should be jailed, I'm surprised why this wasn't more years given the magnitude of his crimes and the lives he destroyed. Justice is slow and when it works, it works.
- vkou 3y ago> I'm surprised why this wasn't more years given the magnitude of his crimes and the lives he destroyed. It's within the sentencing guidelines range for a first offender who exceeded the highest cap on 'amount of money he stole'. Now, why the sentencing guidelines for stealing $5,000,000,000 as a 'bank' are lower than stealing $5,000 from a bank is a separate question. (The answer is that direct threats of violence against particular individuals are usually involved in the latter.) A related question is 'Why aren't his parents going to prison with him?'
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoIt should be linear with no limit.
- vkou 3y agoLinear? Okay. Interesting idea. At roughly what number should it hit 50 years?
- bequanna 3y agoJustice seems to only work when a case is high profile. Every day, lazy DAs are giving lenient plea deals for terrible crimes hoping that no one is paying attention. Unfortunately, usually no one other than the victims are. I don’t know what to blame this on. High case loads for DAs? Reputation grooming so they maintain a good win/loss record? Empathy for the criminals? Simple laziness?
- chrisbolt 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953
- MrSkyNet 3y ago[flagged]
- earnesti 3y ago[flagged]
- tw04 3y agoRoss Ulbricht tried to have someone killed. As far as I know, for all of his idiocy, SBF isn't accused of actually trying to end anyone's life.
- jobs_throwaway 3y agoa fake person. That was entrapment
- f321x_ 3y agoSBF probably killed way more people indirectly (Suicide, homelessness, worse life conditions, ...)