I believe Sam is the Scapegoat in this situation, if I understand the meaning of the word correctly. If I spelled it wrong, then tell me what you call a person who is blamed for what happened.
Sam is to blame, but not for 25 years in prison. And if he's guilty of 25 years in prison, why are the other participants free?
the justice system works. that's why. sam was the head of the whole thing i believe so of course he should be punished the most. people that worked for him, like his girlfriend, i'm not sure what is happening with them. but again, let's let the justice system prevail on them too. but 25 years is not unreasonable at all. not at all.
you need examples that can serve as a deterrent to others to do the same type of crime. that way when someone else gets into a position where they could do what sam did they might think twice knowing that the penalty can be a significant number of years of their life locked up.
If there is only one criminal in jail, the justice system doesn't work because the FTX exchange and Alameda were run by different people and also had different general managers.
Where are all these people now? If anyone is also in jail, please let me know.
A well-known scheme has been working in Russia for a long time. If you need a company for fraud, then on the role of director and chief managers fraudsters recruit the same clowns, and the main fraudsters in the company take the role of consultants and do not sign not a single document. In fact, the consultants manage the company.
I think it's clear to you who's going to be in jail next. Of course the crooks will be arrested, but there will be no evidence against them and their expensive lawyers will defend them.
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And so it turns out that as a result of financial fraud investors have lost about 9 billion dollars, and there's one drug addict in jail. It's a real circus.