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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for March 28. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for what prosecutors called one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history. Cryptocurrency reporter Caitlin Ostroff has the details. And lawyers are gearing up for the legal fight over the Baltimore bridge collapse. Insurance reporter Jean Eaglesham explains why it could take years to resolve. Plus, financial regulation reporter Andrew Ackerman has more on why a bond reclassification might be raising your electricity bill. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sam Bankman Freed has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and lawyers are gearing up for a legal

0:09.2

fight over the Baltimore Bridge collapse.

0:11.7

What we've got here, this is one of the biggest ever machine insurance losses.

0:16.4

It's very complicated.

0:18.4

There's lots of different types of claims including for things like businesses that have lost revenue, the port itself,

0:24.4

clearing the wreckage. So it's a very complicated situation.

0:27.8

Plus why a bond reclassification might be raising your electricity bill.

0:32.0

It's Thursday March 28th, I'm Anne Marie Fertoli

0:35.1

for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and

0:39.5

business stories that move the world today. FTS founder, Sam Bankman Freed has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud tied to the collapse of the digital exchange.

0:54.4

Last year a jury found him guilty of stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers

0:58.7

and defrauding investors and lenders to his crypto investment firm Alameda.

1:03.0

Cryptocurrency reporter Caitlin Ostroff has more on his sentencing today.

1:06.6

Judge Lewis Kaplan, who's been citing over the trial, said that 25 years felt like a fit sentence, that wasn't overly burdensome but that

1:15.6

fit the severity of the crimes Bankman Freed was convicted for and he also

1:20.4

added on that you know one of the things that weighed into his thinking was that Bankman Freed committed perjury when he testified before the jury.

1:28.0

And he also spoke about the risk of Bankman Freed basically committing similar crimes or attempting to commit similar crimes in the future and how the way that Bankman Freed thought about risk and the testimony of others from the trial who said that he took these

1:46.6

very kind of calculated risks of what he thought could be really good bets even if they could also end up disastrously

1:54.3

meant that Bankman freed still posed risk of doing somewhere crimes again if he

2:00.8

re-entered society too soon.

2:02.6

Federal prosecutor said Bankman Freed committed one of the greatest financial frauds in US history.

2:07.8

Today, in a 20 minute statement before you was sentenced, he said, quote,

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