> 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 firs

> 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?'