How Much Jail Time SBF Is Looking At If Convicted?

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of  FTX, was detained in the Bahamas just as he was scheduled to give an online testimony on Tuesday before the US House Financial Services Committee.

On Twitter, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Damian Williams, announced the arrest and stated that SBF was taken into custody at the request of the US government following the filing of a sealed indictment by the SDNY.

SBF may face 612,000 years in prison

The New York Times reports that the charges against SBF in the indictment will be made public on Tuesday. It includes money laundering, securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Of course, SBF should also face charges for talking too much and lengthening his sentence by 15 years by being a megalomaniacal sociopath. SBF’s multi million dollars donations to Democratic party have also raised some eyebrows.

If all the maximum punishment for all the charges against SBF are added up, he may face up to 612,000 years in prison in accordance with federal sentencing guidelines.

One must question the timing since this occurred just one week after Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Capital, was spotted in New York City and sought advice from DC law firm WilmerHale.

However, according to the statement, the country anticipates that the United States will soon ask the Bahamas to extradite Bankman-Fried.

“The Attorney General determined that it was appropriate to request SBF’s arrest and hold him in custody in accordance with our country’s Extradition Act in light of the notification received and the information provided therewith.

“In accordance with Bahamian law and its obligations under its extradition treaty with the United States, The Bahamas intends to process any formal requests for extradition as soon as they are made.”

John Ray was not surprised with Sam Bankman-Fried arrest

After John Ray, the current FTX CEO, claimed in prepared remarks that FTX had “commingled” funds, this shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise. This suggests that he won’t be present at the Maxine Waters-led congressional hearing tomorrow. However, which is unfortunate because we’d have liked to hear some responses.

Following the failure of its potential merger with the top cryptocurrency exchange Binance, FTX filed for bankruptcy last month. The infamous collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange, which destroyed the money of billions of investors. However, it  is being investigated by the US House Financial Services Committee.

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