White collar crimes: Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence is double Elizabeth Holmes’
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Cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried received more than double the prison sentence of Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes, but only a small fraction of the term slapped onto infamous financial criminal Bernie Madoff. Bankman-Fried, the fallen “crypto king” and son of Stanford Law professors, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison.
Here’s a rundown of the prison penalties of notorious American fraud artists, bamboozlers, and scammers from the Bay Area and beyond: