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She was a model cooperator and was sentenced only to 2 years, so this isn't a surprising outcome.

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But she was never a whistleblower. Whistleblower is someone who goes to feds, not someone forced in court to cooperate.

No, of course not; she was a felon, and was convicted of felonies and sentenced to federal prison.

Once again proving that stealing $20 carries a longer sentence than white collar criminals stealing $200,000,000.

> proving that stealing $20 carries a longer sentence than white collar criminals stealing $200,000,000

Who has been prosecuted for stealing $20?

It in fact does not.

It in fact does, but this fact appears outside your sphere of interest in defending.

> suspected that Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd#Murder

Floyd was never charged, let alone convicted, for stealing $20, and we're talking about federal crimes here.

he was just murdered instead

But it shows that there's really no penalties for the rich to commit billions in fraud

Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years in prison. That's the average prison sentence for murder. The message being sent is that you should turn on your partners in crime now and save yourself a lot of suffering in the long run.

I think people have no handle on what years and decades of life lost to prison means. The numbers are just abstract to them.

> it shows that there's really no penalties for the rich to commit billions in fraud

She’s a felon, banned “from holding executive roles in public or crypto companies,” penniless and probably fighting lawsuits for the rest of her life.

Not as long as you are willing to roll on the other guy. This has always been the way.

It's more about who you defrauded. Bernie Madoff died in prison because he defrauded other rich people.

As long as they have someone "worse" to snitch on

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