That’s a really light sentence for someone who defrauded people out of billions. Meanwhile many languish in prison for a lot less. It’s a two tier justice system, and the wealthy can get out of consequences with the right connections or donations.
Next up, Elizabeth Holmes - once her family donates enough to the MAGA PAC.
Even if you "cooperate", that shouldn't be an 80-90% sentence reduction. She was part of the fraud, consciously, for years!
SBF was screwed with or without Ellison's testimony.
It should be the other way around. You get 10 years. You don't want to cooperate? Great! You get another 10.
I don't excuse anything that she did, but didn't 98% of investors get everything back with interest?
Hence why "attempted murder" is a thing.
For comparison, MtGox went tits up twelve years ago in 2014 and they're still figuring out repayments for its BTC holders, which is both a hell of a lot simpler than FTX's grab bag of own tokens etc and has gone up a zillion percent since 2014.
But it's true: master has given Dobby a sock
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/ftx-crypt...
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arwt•22m ago
World order is out of the door, and has been for a while -- they are all probably fighting amongst themselves to get her onto their board ASAP.