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Boo, I was hoping for 40. He'll get out early enough to scam more.
This is probably to satisfy the public. He’ll probably get closer from 5-10 and the rest will be watered down on appeals
He is going to federal prison, which means he needs to serve 85% of his sentence or 21.25 years minimum.
Not according to CNN:
""SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him," Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.
Since 2018, however, nonviolent federal inmates can reduce their sentence by as much as 50% under prison reform legislation known as the First Step Act."
edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/h_538da92aa954d1035036db11ba53b4a8
The last 7.5 years will probably be at home detention
Meanwhile the people he stole from are unlikely to ever see any of their money again let alone half of it.