Offbeat letter suggests SBF should teach high school math as punishment for crimes

An antithetic missive sent to national tribunal connected Jan. 10 suggested an alternate condemnation for FTX’s laminitis and erstwhile CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried.

The letter’s author, Mary McKee of Minnetonka, Minnesota, stated that she has nary narration to Bankman-Fried. She continued:

“Mr. Bankman-Fried surely seems to beryllium autistic and [it] doesn’t look similar a situation condemnation would beryllium of [any] payment to anyone … It isn’t similar helium acceptable retired to perpetrate fraud similar Bernie Madoff, and the radical who mislaid wealth with him are connected the borderline of ineligible laws [sic] themselves.”

McKee went connected to enactment that “someone who commits execution gets a lesser sentence” than the situation word that Bankman-Fried whitethorn face.

Though execution tin effect successful a beingness condemnation without the anticipation of parole, a 2021 bulletin from the U.S. Department of Justice indicates that the median situation condemnation for execution is 17.5 years earlier release. By contrast, Bankman-Fried faces up to 110 years, and perchance as small arsenic 30 years, successful prison.

Could SBF get assemblage service?

McKee besides suggested that Bankman-Fried person an alternate sentence:

“Instead of a situation sentence, tin [Bankman-Fried] beryllium directed to teaching a precocious schoolhouse mathematics course? Putting his endowment to affirmative use?”

Due to the severity of Bankman-Fried’s convictions — which see 5 counts of conspiracy and 2 counts of ligament fraud — it seems improbable that his condemnation could beryllium wholly replaced by assemblage service.

However, a reduced condemnation whitethorn beryllium possible. The financier Michael Milken, sentenced to 10 years successful situation for securities fraud successful the 1990s, ultimately served conscionable 22 months earlier entering assemblage service. As portion of that service, helium participated successful a schoolhouse anti-drug programme called D.A.R.E.

Bankman-Fried volition beryllium sentenced connected March 28. It is unclear whether McKee’s missive is included successful the docket for reasons related to the defense’s expected arguments for a lenient sentence, but its inclusion is notable.

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