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Speaker 1: This is breaking the loose from Bloomberg. A jury here

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Speaker 1: in New York has reached a verdict in the Sam

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Speaker 1: all seven counts that include fraud and conspiracy. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: in Bloomberg Radio legal analyst June Grosso, also host of

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law. June, is this a surprise to you?

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Speaker 2: It's not a surprise because the evidence against him was overwhelming,

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Speaker 2: and in the closing arguments, the prosecutor kept mentioning, if

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Speaker 2: you believe Caroline Allison, if you believe Gary Wong, if

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Speaker 2: you believe this one, then he's guilty. And it was

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Speaker 2: really a masterful close. But I think, what did it is?

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Speaker 2: Sam Bankminfried took stand in his own defense, And when

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Speaker 2: a defendant takes the stand that way, the whole thing

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Speaker 2: in the jury's mind becomes a credibility game. How credible

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Speaker 2: do they find him? And though he was good on

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Speaker 2: direct during cross he was caught up a lot by

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Speaker 2: the prosecution. He said I don't know, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: over and over again, and he had a problem with

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Speaker 2: all the statements he's made. He made in between the

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Speaker 2: time that STX went bankrupt and the time when he

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Speaker 2: was arrested, So he talked to so many people, reporters

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Speaker 2: it was a really difficult, uphill battle and the only

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Speaker 2: thing that would have saved him is if he convinced

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Speaker 1: You and I were talking earlier today and I asked

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Speaker 1: Is there one?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about successful because appeals of criminal

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Speaker 2: of grounds to work with. I mean, the judge made

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Speaker 2: you know, I relied on my lawyers in this case

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Speaker 2: in the end, it basically was Sam Bankman breed testifying

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Speaker 2: I also want to say, Doug that keeping the jury,

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Speaker 1: When it comes to sentencing, what we are learning now

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Speaker 2: It is decades in prison. But you know, the judge

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the judge Lewis Kaplan, the US district

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Speaker 2: He's known for being a very good judge and running

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Speaker 1: And if you're just joining us, we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: trial of Sam Bankman freed. The jury tonight in New

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Speaker 2: I think the sentencing will happen first the defense has

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Speaker 1: Are there sentencing guidelines.

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Speaker 1: Angelo Moon, a Bloomberg legal reporter who joins us on

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Speaker 1: the line from here in New York. This deliberation really

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Speaker 1: didn't take that long, did.

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Speaker 3: It, right? It took about five hours, which is really

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Speaker 3: unheard of. This is very very especially for a very

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Speaker 3: high profile criminal cases. And you know, we knew that

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Speaker 3: the judge was asking the jurors to stay really late

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Speaker 3: into the evening, but you know, there was really less

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Speaker 3: than ten percent chance really that we thought the verdict

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Speaker 3: was going to be delivered. But we have that now,

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Speaker 3: which means that the jurors were pretty convinced from very

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Speaker 3: earlier on that this was a fraud chase and the

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Speaker 3: same and that Sam Brik mcfred was really the one

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Speaker 3: who was orchestrating the fall of the FTX from very

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Speaker 3: from very earlier on in this child.

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Speaker 1: I just want to be clear that this was a

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Speaker 1: unanimous decision on the part of the jury, right, a

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Speaker 1: unanimous guilty decision, right, correct.

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Speaker 3: And not only that they found him guilty of seven

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Speaker 3: counts of fraud and conspiracy. You know, we were expecting

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Speaker 3: initially that there will be you know, he would be

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Speaker 3: you know, found guilty of some accounts. But this is

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Speaker 3: really an unanimous decision and there was. It means that

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Speaker 3: there was really no question about the kind of fraud,

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Speaker 3: the kind of crimes that he committed.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I'm trying to nail down.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can help me, and it fits ambiguous at

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Speaker 1: this point, Angela, please, you know, uh, don't be led

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Speaker 1: into this territory. But has the judge offered a sentencing date.

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Speaker 3: He has, so it's going to be March next year.

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Speaker 3: So we were expecting the sentencing to be coming earlier

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Speaker 3: next year, so there's really no surprise there. But that

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Speaker 3: also means that we will see, you know what what

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Speaker 3: it means for the collaborators that he's inner circle who

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Speaker 3: already pled it, fled guilty, and was cooperating with the prosecutors.

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Speaker 3: We'll see what kind of sent thing or what kind

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Speaker 3: of you know, outcome it is for them as well.

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Speaker 1: Early next year, let's bring June Grosso back into the conversation.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg in house legal analyst, June this March twenty eighth

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Speaker 1: of next year. That seems like a long period of time,

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Speaker 1: does it not?

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Speaker 2: It does, But as I said, a lot has to

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Speaker 2: happen in between now and then, and the judge is

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Speaker 2: giving them time to you know, prepare their motions and

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Speaker 2: for the probation department to make its report, and for

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Speaker 2: the prosecution to prepare its recommendation. So, you know, better

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Speaker 2: to have more time than less time. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it matters much for Sam meg and Freed at this point.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be in one prison or another.

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Speaker 1: When the judge it arrives at the sentencing. We were

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Speaker 1: talking about sentencing guidelines earlier. Is anyone allowed to kind

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Speaker 1: of enter into a conversation with a judge to influence

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Speaker 1: his or her decision making?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean you can send I mean I assume

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Speaker 2: you mean like relatives that's like his mom, his dad,

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Speaker 2: his friends. They can send letters to the judge and

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Speaker 2: in some cases I mean, there have been cases where

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Speaker 2: hundreds of letters were sent to judges and the judges

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Speaker 2: do go over those letters, and sometimes they'll even refer

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Speaker 2: to them in the sentencing. They'll say, you know, you

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Speaker 2: had I read this about you and that, and then

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Speaker 2: they'll but I think, you know, despite all that, as

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Speaker 2: I've said before, this judge knows all the evidence in

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Speaker 2: this case, and he's seen it all, and he knows

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Speaker 2: what was what was admitted into evidence and what was

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Speaker 2: not admitted to evidence because he was the one who

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Speaker 2: made those decisions. So he knows what happened. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I think that he will have an idea himself of

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Speaker 2: where he wants to go here, and but he'll read

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Speaker 2: the recommendations. He'll perhaps be persuaded by some but you know,

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Speaker 2: usually the judges, the trial judges know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for a man as young as bankman Freed, I

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Speaker 1: mean to be dealing with and you I think you

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Speaker 1: put a figure of what one hundred years potentially worst

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Speaker 1: case scenario after you've been convicted for these crimes.

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Speaker 2: That's just that's just ridiculous. I said it because that's

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Speaker 2: like the outer limit of what people have been saying.

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Speaker 2: He's facing one hundred years. That will never happen, never, never, never.

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Speaker 2: But I mean that's just the outer limit if you

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Speaker 2: are convicted of these seven you know, selonies. So it

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Speaker 2: won't be it won't be that. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to take a guess because I don't want to

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Speaker 2: do that. But you know, yes, probably between ten and

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Speaker 2: twenty and eighty. I don't know, Okay, it's hard to say.

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Speaker 1: June Grasso there Bloomberg in house legal analyst for Bloomberg Radio,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking about the conviction of Sam Bankman free

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Speaker 1: to jury here in New York, finding him guilty on

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Speaker 1: seven counts of fraud and conspiracy.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Jury here in Manhattan, deliberated for less than five hours,

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Speaker 1: and the judge in this case, Lewis Kaplan, has now

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Speaker 1: set a sentencing date of March twenty eighth of next year.

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Speaker 1: What should we be looking for next? I mean, if

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Speaker 1: we're trying to read the tea leaves here, June, is

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Speaker 1: there anything to give us guidance on the severity of punishment?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we'd have to have someone who who

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Speaker 2: studies the sentencing guidelines take a look at it. But

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Speaker 2: you know, as I said, you look at Elizabeth Holmes.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she was facing far more time when you

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Speaker 2: added it all up than what she got. So, you know,

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Speaker 2: I really don't know how to go about speculated sort

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Speaker 2: of figuring out. I don't. I already speculated. Don't get

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Speaker 2: it all.

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Speaker 1: Right, No more speculating, June.

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Speaker 2: You pushed me, and I speculated. I regretted already. But

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Speaker 2: because you know, I just don't know how the judge

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Speaker 2: is going to go here. But I just think it's

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Speaker 2: going to be substantial. I don't thinks he's going to,

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Speaker 2: you know, get out, get out very quickly.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to throw you another curveball because you're so

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Speaker 1: good at fielding curveballs. In terms of being eligible for

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Speaker 1: parole in a case like this, can the judge going

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Speaker 1: into sentencing set limitations on that or is that entirely

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Speaker 1: up to the parole board.

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Speaker 2: It's that's usually up to the parole board. So the

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Speaker 2: judge will set a sentence, and I mean there might

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Speaker 2: be a minimum and a maximum, but I think he'll

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Speaker 2: just set a sentence. And I'm not as familiar with

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Speaker 2: federal with federal prison Thomas, I am with state. So

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Speaker 2: he'll set a sentence, and then the parole board, and

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Speaker 2: I think in federal you know, I think we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to get an expert on this, because I am

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Speaker 2: not an expert in federal, but I know the judge

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Speaker 2: just set a sentence and then it'll be up. Parole

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Speaker 2: is a different thing. I don't know if you're thinking

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Speaker 2: about parole or probation.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jim will leave it there, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Sam Bankman Freed is what we've been talking about. His

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Speaker 1: conviction today massive fraud that obviously led to the collapse

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Speaker 1: of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Mister bankmin Freed found guilty

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Speaker 1: tonight by a jury in Manhattan on all seven counts

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Speaker 1: of fraud and conspiracy. June Grasso has been in conversation

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Speaker 1: with US June, of course, Bloomberg Radio in house legal

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Speaker 1: analyst