Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced in Manhattan federal court, faces over 100 years in prison
Sam Bankman-Fried, once the CEO of FTX and a billionaire wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world, will be sentenced to prison Thursday morning in New York City. He was convicted on seven counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money in November.
Should the judge in his case impose the harshest penalty allowed, the 32-year-old would face more than 100 years and die an incarcerated man, a possibility his lawyer has called “grotesque”.
In advance of the hearing, lawyers for the US Department of…
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News Source: www.theguardian.com