Here’s the latest for Thursday, March 28: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years; Maryland seeking $60 million to start bridge repairs; Biden in NYC for fundraiser while Trump attends officer's wake; Chocolate prices up, but cocoa farmers earning less.
After a lengthy trial and conviction, we finally learned how long former crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried will be behind bars: up to 25 years. It's a lengthy sentence, but one that given the scale of the crimes he was convicted of, doesn't come as a shock.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Lewis Kaplan, about five months after he was found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering during his trial. Before sentencing, Bankman-Fried acknowledged in court that he made a "series of bad decisions," but argued they were not "selfish" ones. Bankman-Fried was also ordered during the sentencing to pay forfeiture of $11 billion to the U.S. government.
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