• db0
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    293 months ago

    Boo, I was hoping for 40. He’ll get out early enough to scam more.

      • db0
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        223 months ago

        Sure, I’d rather Sam spent the rest of his life making up to his victims through public service works.

          • @SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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            173 months ago

            Were there not a fair pile of ‘mom and pop’ / young idiot ‘investors’ who got on the hype train and put in thousands or tens of thousands?

              • David Gerard
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                83 months ago

                the fall of FTX took out large swathes of the remaining crypto economy, especially in Africa. Everyone just used FTX as a shitty bank.

                but then, if they knew what they were doing, they wouldn’t have gone near crypto

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        you know, this is a pretty good point (and I think the rest of my thoughts align with what david’s mentioned elsewhere in some of the threads)

    • @SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
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      183 months ago

      This is probably to satisfy the public. He’ll probably get closer from 5-10 and the rest will be watered down on appeals

      • David Gerard
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        33 months ago

        none of the scams are new, he’ll adapt

    • Sonori
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      53 months ago

      How much you want to bet that he is let out within fifteen for ‘good behavior’, ‘demonstrated an earnest commitment to changing his ways’ and the other reasons listed as to why wealthy people don’t spend long in prison.

      • db0
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        53 months ago

        Far as I heard, reduction can only ever go down to 21

        • Sonori
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          43 months ago

          Hua, that’s seems surprising little for a non violent offender not involved in drugs.

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            he’ll likely get low security and probably not horribly far from his parents’ house

            edit: judge has asked for medium security and as close to his parents’ house as possible.

  • AcausalRobotGod
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    153 months ago

    This 25 year portion is going to be really easy to simulate!

  • @V0ldek
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    93 months ago

    From the defense lawyer’s statement (after Molly White) :

    Really, he’s an awkward math nerd. He thinks in probabilities about everything. He speaks in expected value calculations. He loves video games and veganism (…)

    Those are aggravating circumstances. If I’m the judge that’s +10yrs just for “he speaks in EV calculations”.

    • David Gerard
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      73 months ago

      i think they’ll go “fine, whatever. which crook is next”

      (that would be CZ)

  • @answersplease77@lemmy.world
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    -23 months ago

    He has at least stashed hundreds of bitcoins and get out multi billionare. So in 25 yrs he will rug bull the crypto market in revenage