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Headline : Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

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FTX's former CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the Federal Courthouse following a bail hearing ahead of his October trial, in New York City, July 26, 2023. AFP-Yonhap

Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the worldโ€™s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency.

Though he described Bankman-Fried as โ€œextremely smart,โ€ U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan delivered a blistering analysis of Bankman-Fried and his crimes before announcing a sentence that was half of what prosecutors sought and less than a quarter of the 105 years recommended by the court's probation officers.

โ€œThere is absolutely no doubt that Mr. Bankman-Friedโ€™s name right now is pretty much mud around the world,โ€ Kaplan said of the 32-year-old California man who seemed atop the cryptocurrency universe before his businesses collapsed in November 2022, leaving customers, investors and lenders short over $11 billion, which the judge ordered him to forfeit.

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