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Thursday March 28th. Former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Freed has been

sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding FTX customers.

That's less than the 40 to 50 years prosecutors had asked for, but a lot more than the roughly six years Bankman

Freed's attorneys wanted.

Back in November, the 32-year-old founder of cryptocurrency exchange company, FTX, was convicted

of stealing more than $8 billion from customers and orchestrating a years long cover-up and what

prosecutors described as one of the largest financial frauds in history. The now

collapsed FTS had built itself as a safe and easy way to trade

cryptocurrencies. But another company owned by Bankman Freed

had been secretly siphoning deposits

and using some of the money to fund executives' luxury

lifestyles.

In court today, Bankman Freed apologized for letting people down

and said the collapse of FTX, quote,

haunts him every day.

Conditions at the site of the Baltimore Bridge Collapse are bad, so authorities are moving from a recovery mode to a salvage operation.

The bodies of two of the six construction workers who died after a container ship hit a pillar of the Francis

Scott Key Bridge have been recovered.

Now more than 1,000 personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been activated to help clear

the critical shipping channel that's impacting trade.

A big question that remains is how did the ship lose power?

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