SAM BANKMAN-FRIED GETS 25 YEAR SENTENCE TODAY Enough?

[philipma1957]

I picked no. I wanted 50 years for him  He is very young. In 25 years he will be in his 50s. There is over 1 billion missing. So he will score down the road.

[yhiaali3]

I chose yes. I believe that 25 years of imprisonment is sufficient punishment for the mistakes he committed that caused people to lose millions of dollars.

25 years in prison is not a short period of time. I think it is enough for him, even if he is young. It will certainly be a very long time for him, and most importantly, it will be a deterrent to bad people who are thinking of defrauding people and stealing their money.

The important thing is that he serves this sentence in a real prison and not in an entertainment prison.

[philipma1957]

I chose yes. I believe that 25 years of imprisonment is sufficient punishment for the mistakes he committed that caused people to lose millions of dollars.

25 years in prison is not a short period of time. I think it is enough for him, even if he is young. It will certainly be a very long time for him, and most importantly, it will be a deterrent to bad people who are thinking of defrauding people and stealing their money.

The important thing is that he serves this sentence in a real prison and not in an entertainment prison.

I do agree that it is a long sentence. But he is 29-30 and will be free at 54-55.
So I kind don’t like that he will not be to old when he is freed.

[ABCbits]

No, considering amount of money stolen, total victim along with with impact on those victim. And i expect in reality he'll in jail less than 25 years due to various reasons such as good behavior.

I chose yes. I believe that 25 years of imprisonment is sufficient punishment for the mistakes he committed that caused people to lose millions of dollars.

Actually it's not millions, but rather billions of dollars.

[TomPluz]

I picked no. I wanted 50 years for him  He is very young. In 25 years he will be in his 50s. There is over 1 billion missing. So he will score down the road.

SBF should get more than 25 years considering the severity of the things he did and the kind of deception he perpetuated in  FTX to the detriment of the number of people who believed in his leadership and supposed integrity. This should have sending a big message to others under his category who might thinking of doing the same thing. SBF will always be remembered badly and surely he already carved a part in the history of the cryptocurrency industry...he did not just evaded the government and its regulatory functions but also fooled his own platform's users and investors. Had I been the judge I would render a 100-year prison term with a chance of parole only after 50 years.

[philipma1957]

I picked no. I wanted 50 years for him  He is very young. In 25 years he will be in his 50s. There is over 1 billion missing. So he will score down the road.

SBF should get more than 25 years considering the severity of the things he did and the kind of deception he perpetuated in  FTX to the detriment of the number of people who believed in his leadership and supposed integrity. This should have sending a big message to others under his category who might thinking of doing the same thing. SBF will always be remembered badly and surely he already carved a part in the history of the cryptocurrency industry...he did not just evaded the government and its regulatory functions but also fooled his own platform's users and investors. Had I been the judge I would render a 100-year prison term with a chance of parole only after 50 years.

I googled his age he is 32. so 32+25 = 57

I am 67 and trust me 57 is not too old to cause a ton of damage again or to party like mad.  So he is likely to be a very rich person once he gets out.

Spelled his name wrong.  Sam Bankman-Fried is correct

[Don Pedro Dinero]

I do not know exactly how it works in the USA. Of those 25 years can you get out earlier, say at 15 for good behavior? In Spain, for example, the penalty for murdering someone is between 15 and 25 years, so there are people who have killed someone else with premeditation and have been sentenced to less than SBF. Apart from the fact that for good behavior you can start to get out of prison much earlier.

With that comparison I think that 25 years for SBF is fine. Think about what those years are like day by day, spent in prison, he will feel them like an eternity.

[robelneo]

I picked no. I wanted 50 years for him  He is very young. In 25 years he will be in his 50s. There is over 1 billion missing. So he will score down the road.

I also voted no he should get 3 life sentences I agree that after he completes his 25 years sentence he can enjoy the money he scammed from the people, so many people can't work for 25 years and earn 1 billion, while SAM BANKMAN-FRIED can just wait and relax for his release and enjoy that huge winnings.

[LogitechMouse]

I also picked NO for this one.
He's still 32 years old, and after 25 years, he will be 57 years old. He can still do many things on that age. He still have the power to scam people "AGAIN".

TBH, I don't care that much with the sentence. What I care more is the investors. Will they get paid, and if they will get paid, is it enough? Anyway, the judge has decided that he will be in jail for 25 years. I hope that this will not go down anymore for some reasons, and I wish that investors will get paid as well.

Why not 100+ years? I mean no one wants to see him out of jail aside from his parents, right?

[Z-tight]

The sentence is surely not enough, sbf should have gotten nothing less than 40-50 years in prison. This is a financial crime that caused so much damage for a lot of people, there are even reports that some persons committed suicide after losing everything in ftx's collapse, and all because of sbf's misappropriation of customer's funds. This will surely be hard to take for the creditors, who were seeking some kind of 'justice' from this.

[yhiaali3]

No, considering amount of money stolen, total victim along with with impact on those victim. And i expect in reality he'll in jail less than 25 years due to various reasons such as good behavior.

Yes, this is what I fear. If he were to spend a full 25 years in prison, that would be a sufficient period, but given the data, I expect that he will receive mitigating reasons for the prison term, such as good behavior, as you mentioned, or such as cooperation with the authorities in the investigation, and so on.

Also, let us not forget that his parents may intervene to get him a comfortable stay in prison, as he actually received during the period of his imprisonment that he spent during the investigations.

[Captain Corporate]

I mean, I get people who want "life" sentence, because lets be honest 25 year jail time doesn't mean that its 25 years, he will get out before that 25 year ends. This is why many people want life sentence, since he would be paroled after 20 years anyway, which would make it better for him. However, I believe that considering what he did wasn't a violent crime, he didn't murder anyone, yes what he did was illegal and yes what he did hurt anyone, maybe for life, there isn't really anything small for him and that's why I believe that what he got was enough, anything less would be too bad, anything more could be over rate.

[SamReomo]

I also voted no and I highly agree with Philipma1957 that SBF is too young now and after 25 years he won't be old enough to not do something that he has already done. Because of that guy so many people have lost their life savings and 25 years of imprisonment is nothing when we see the damage he has done. So, I believe a good punishment for him should be life imprisonment.

[Kemarit]

I voted for yes, it's not that I'm a pro SBF, no I'm not. But if you look at the justice system of the US, usually they handed like 20 years prison sentence. So this is just about as normal as what the judge can give to SBF.

Yes, he is still young when he got out of prison, but who knows, I mean there's a lot of things that is going to change in that time frame and maybe we will forget all about this guy in the future.

[ABCbits]

I voted for yes, it's not that I'm a pro SBF, no I'm not. But if you look at the justice system of the US, usually they handed like 20 years prison sentence. So this is just about as normal as what the judge can give to SBF.

I'm not familiar with U.S. laws, but do you mind share article or news which state about usually handling 20 years sentence? After all, we've seen more serious sentence like this, Sholam Weiss appeals 845-year sentence for life insurance plot where both him and SBF was involved on billions of USD.

Yes, he is still young when he got out of prison, but who knows, I mean there's a lot of things that is going to change in that time frame and maybe we will forget all about this guy in the future.

And if people in the future still doesn't bother perform research, he probably will scam them again.