December of 2022, when the Justice Department first announced an historic indictment of a well-known American billionaire and political figure.

A former crypto billionaire Sam Bankmanfreed now under arrest and facing multiple

criminal charges.

C. NBC's Kate Rooney has more.

He was once hailed as the king of crypto, but today Sam Bankman-freed, founder and

former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, is facing criminal indictments and a

wave of civil complaints. The Sam Bankman- freed indictment, a huge complex case involving

billions of dollars in fraud, complicated financial instruments, international currency exchanges, and a whole lot more. It was a first of

its kind case for the Justice Department and for the judicial system that would hear

that case. And it took 10 months for that case with all of its myriad complexities to go to trial.

Sam Bankman-Freed was indicted in the month of December.

By the following October, he was sitting in a courtroom.

As it turns out, that is a fairly standard amount of time for major cases.

In October of 2017, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manifort was arrested and charged by Robert

Mueller in Washington, D.C. for money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent. Mueller followed that with more related tax and

bank fraud charges in Virginia a few months later. So two high stakes cases

involving the former campaign manager of a sitting US president.

But even with all that, the time from Manafort's initial arrest to the first day of this first trial in Virginia was just nine months.

Manifort was arrested in October and by the following July he was sitting in a courtroom

facing a jury of his peers.

Oathkeeper's leader, Stuart Rhodes, was charged by the Justice Department for carrying

out a seditious conspiracy against the United States on January 6, 2021.

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