Sam Bankman-Fried, the "Crypto King" jailed for 25 years

[Mpamaegbu]

Overall, I feel worried to those investors who lost their money investing into the project. Some of them even put their life savings into it which is not advisable but still, there are some who are doing it.

Just like you, LogitechMouse, I also think the sentencing was a slap on the wrist for such a heinous crime committed. Though we may not have the statistics, I can bet that there are so many investors who died as a result of SBF's criminal action. Anyway, as lenient as his jail term may be I still believe it's a step in the right direction. Also, this has sent out a warning to other crypto criminals who think they can't be caught.

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[electronicash]

Overall, I feel worried to those investors who lost their money investing into the project. Some of them even put their life savings into it which is not advisable but still, there are some who are doing it.

Just like you, LogitechMouse, I also think the sentencing was a slap on the wrist for such a heinous crime committed. Though we may not have the statistics, I can bet that there are so many investors who died as a result of SBF's criminal action. Anyway, as lenient as his jail term may be I still believe it's a step in the right direction. Also, this has sent out a warning to other crypto criminals who think they can't be caught.

25 years and the possibility that he may be free after a few years is just not serving justice here. knowing that his parents are pretty much friends of the top officials, it only means he is untouchable.

it's not coincident that SBF became famous and they presented the kid as a philanthropist donating money to politicians and so celebrities invested in his company, this is all coordinated to scam those investors. in less than 5 years i guess the kid walks out free.

[mich]

Well he is a very bad man, I think that is right for him to get 25 years in prison. He has did so much bad damage to many innocent people.

And he does deserve this long prison sentence. But do we think that he will do all those 25 years. I am thinking no with good behaviors it will be a shorter time then this.

[tygeade]

Sam Bankman-Fried, commonly know as the "Crypto King" and "The Golden Boy" who was the founder of FTX exchange, was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for for defrauding customers and investors. A New York court gave away that sentence. Further, he needs to forfeit $11bn to compensate victims.
He was one of the youngest billionaire, a billionaire in early 20s, greed and risking people money without consent led him to being sent to jail at the age of 32.

With the way everyone reacting on this post, I do not think that people understand the logic of sentencing dates. I mean I get that you may want him to be punished severely, but this is an autistic Jewish guy in prison for 25 years, it is doubtful that he could even come out of there alive, it is already a lot and he will not be getting any friends there, his life is at risk every single day of his life.

Yes, what he did hurt many families, maybe people lost their life over it, maybe people took their own life, there is no excuse. But, there are serial killers out there, there are terrorists out there, you think that those people who get life sentence (or death penalty) should also be applied to some guy who stole money? We value money over human life that much?

[Mate2237]

Coming back from prison at the age of 57 is not bad. That is still young. If he is innovative, he can create content from the crash and start life all over again. He was not prepared for real life but fake and scamming lifestyle. And he was probably intoxicated with the wealth of from others and could not control himself. And the way I am seeingz Binance is also going to that direction because there is no way when a company was sanction in a country for not obeying their local monetary policy and yet the same thing happened in another country again then you are deliberately doing it.

So they I am seeing Binance it will end of like that if FTX. And the management will suffer for it.

[mich]

But it is funny for me is he said he did not know what he is doing is illegal. Because he must think it is ok do do this and just become rich and it is not illegal.

I do not know how he thinks we will believe him. He stole Billions of dollars of the users money and he does deserve his sentence for 25 years. 

https://gizmodo.com/i-never-thought-that-what-i-was-doing-was-illegal-sbf-1851379761

[FanEagle]

With the way everyone reacting on this post, I do not think that people understand the logic of sentencing dates. I mean I get that you may want him to be punished severely, but this is an autistic Jewish guy in prison for 25 years, it is doubtful that he could even come out of there alive, it is already a lot and he will not be getting any friends there, his life is at risk every single day of his life.

Yes, what he did hurt many families, maybe people lost their life over it, maybe people took their own life, there is no excuse. But, there are serial killers out there, there are terrorists out there, you think that those people who get life sentence (or death penalty) should also be applied to some guy who stole money? We value money over human life that much?

I do agree that it is not going to be severe, because if you keep making that, you are risking people fearing business as well. This dude made a mistake at his business, sure it was a criminal mistake but a business mistake after all, it wasn't druglord thing, it wasn't murder, it wasn't mafia thing, it was just a business that went rogue, that's it. Asking for his head or something is just way too much, people are overreacting because they are the ones who lost their money to this dude, and if you lost all of your life savings to some guy, then you would hate that person as well.

But you lost your money, not your life to him, he didn't kill you, he didn't kill anyone you love, he made a mistake in his business and this is what his consequence should be, he forfeited his life to jail.

[pinggoki]

Good, at the least it's a win for us plebs that are getting screwed over by these men in suits daily, I just hoped that a parole isn't going to be a thing for him, I advise that you shouldn't feel bad about this guy no matter how much the media paints it, this man made the lives of their bottom line which are the investors from different walks of life miserable and I think that it's a good thing that this person at the least experiences the misery that he and his associates had inflicted to these people, I just wish that people that are still trying to get their money back from FTX would get what they deserve and more, makes for another reason why we can't trust CEX anymore.

[coin-investor]

Sam Bankman-Fried, commonly know as the "Crypto King" and "The Golden Boy" who was the founder of FTX exchange, was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for for defrauding customers and investors. A New York court gave away that sentence. Further, he needs to forfeit $11bn to compensate victims.
He was one of the youngest billionaire, a billionaire in early 20s, greed and risking people money without consent led him to being sent to jail at the age of 32.

There were clamors for 100 years in jail terms but Sam has built connections and he has the money to use for shorter jail terms, I don't think that 25 years will be spent on his jail term he will be released possibly on his 10th year because of fixed good moral and of course his old alibi of his disorder.
He can do that because of his money, and once he is released he can enjoy his life again because of the leftover money that I'm sure is still hidden and he can enjoy it for the rest of his life.

Sam Bankman-Fried gave us one big lesson always check the platform where we are putting our money, and don't trust centralized entities with a huge amount of money that equals your fortune in life even if the profit is very good.

[bettercrypto]

He got listed in Forbes list of billionaire before 30 and it seems most big scammers in the world come from that list. I think it was in the pipeline that he will be imprisoned but 25 years is a small sentence. He is responsible for the deaths of many investors and he should have been give life imprisonment. I don't know whether 11 billion would be sufficient enough to compensate those who lost their money.

He might even be included in the history of the Guinness Book of World Records as "the biggest scammer of all time," and at least he holds that title for being famous for evil.
Is SBF still sleeping soundly?

Or is he stressed now because of the test he is going through now? But even so, no one knows if he will be able to finish the sentence with him or
if he will still be able to overcome that test in his life.

[DeathAngel]

I saw him saying he didn’t think what he was doing was illegal in court. He’s as dishonest as anybody in history, the guy is one of the biggest fraudsters/scammers in history & he’s now in the place he deserves to be for a long time, good riddance.