Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence of 25 years puts him in the same league as other well-known financial fraudsters, including, clockwise from upper left, Bernie Madoff, Lawrence Duran, Bernie Ebbers, Allen Stanford and Jeffrey Skilling. – MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images With a sentence of 25 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried joins a list of notorious white-collar criminals […]
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In possible bad omen for Trump, his NY fraud judge asked the AG’s lawyers to compare him to Madoff
Trump’s fraud-trial judge asked a pointed question during the New York AG’s closings on Thursday. “How would you compare the fraud you’re alleging to the Madoff Ponzi scheme?” he asked. “It’s smaller,” a lawyer for the AG said, adding that both cases demonstrate a sense of entitlement. In a possible bad omen for Donald Trump, […]