Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Monday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the cryptocurrency trading platform he founded, FTX, the final step in the former billionaire "wizard"'s dramatic fall from grace.
据路透社3月28日报道,萨姆·班克曼-弗里德28日被法官判处25年监禁,罪名是他从自己创立的加密货币交易平台FTX的客户那里窃取了80亿美元,这是这位前亿万富翁“奇才”戏剧性堕落的最后一步。
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan announced the sentence at a hearing in a Manhattan courthouse. He had previously dismissed Mr Bankman-fried's claim that FTX customers had not actually lost money and determined that he had lied in his trial testimony. A jury found Bankman-Fried, 32, guilty on Nov. 2 of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in connection with FTX's 2022 bankruptcy, which prosecutors described as one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history.
美国联邦地区法官刘易斯·卡普兰在曼哈顿法院的听证会上宣布了这一判决。此前,他驳回了班克曼-弗里德有关FTX客户实际上并未蒙受损失的说法,并认定他在庭审证词中撒了谎。陪审团于去年11月2日裁定,32岁的班克曼-弗里德犯有7项欺诈和共谋罪,这些罪名涉及2022年FTX的破产案,检察官称这是美国历史上最大的金融欺诈案之一。
Mr. Kaplan said Mr. Bankman-fried showed no remorse.
卡普兰说,班克曼-弗里德毫无悔意。
"He knew it was wrong," Kaplan said. He knew it was a crime. He regretted that he had made a very bad bet on the possibility of getting caught. But he won't admit it. That's his right."
卡普兰说:“他知道这是错的。他知道这是犯罪行为。他后悔自己对被抓的可能性下了一个非常糟糕的赌注。但他不会承认,这是他的权利。”
In a 20-minute statement to the judge, Bankman-Fried, wearing a beige short-sleeved prison T-shirt, acknowledged that FTX customers had been hurt and apologized to his former colleagues at FTX, but did not admit to criminal wrongdoing.
班克曼-弗里德身穿米色短袖监狱T恤,在对法官长达20分钟的陈述中承认FTX的客户受到伤害,他还向FTX的前同事们表示歉意,但不承认自己有犯罪行为。
He vowed to appeal his conviction and sentence.
他誓言要对自己的定罪和判决提出上诉。