this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
127 points (99.2% liked)
Buttcoin
333 readers
70 users here now
Buttcoin is the future of online butts. Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts.
A community for hurling ordure at cryptocurrency/blockchain dweebs of all sorts. We are only here for debate as long as it amuses us. Meme stocks are also on topic.
founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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
Meanwhile the people he stole from are unlikely to ever see any of their money again let alone half of it.