DOJ’s Proposed 50-Year Sentence for Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Disturbing,’ FTX Founder’s Lawyers Say

“At age 32, the government wants to break Sam Bankman-Fried. They ignore completely his condition and vulnerabilities. Instead, they urge, menacingly, that the sentence imposed must ‘disable’ him even from ‘being in a position’ where he theoretically ‘could’ perpetrate a fraud,” the filing said. “That is a horrifying interpretation of specific deterrence.”