So Caitlin, it's happened. We have a sentence 25 years for Sam Bankman Freed.

Yeah, after months of waiting the trial,

all of the pretrial hearings,

we finally know how long Sam Bankman Freed

will be in prison.

And you know as a reminder this is 25 years for stealing billions of dollars from

FDX customers and affording investors and lenders in what prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history.

And you'll remember at the start of this podcast, one of our earliest episodes, we noted how

he set out to save the world through his FTX empire and

now instead he's going to spend much of his adult life behind bars. We heard from

Bankman freed again today and one of the things that stuck out was he said quote my useful life is probably over

Yeah, that was a very powerful moment during the two and a half hours that we were in court today watching this sentencing unfold.

And a lot happened.

So we're going to break down just how Judge Lewis Kaplan got to that 25 years and what it's going to mean for Sam Bankman Freed.

From the Journal, this is a trial of crypto's golden boy. I'm Caitlin Ostro and I'm Rachel Humphreys

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