Here's how the former crypto mogul's 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.
Sam Bankman-Fried
A New York judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried for stealing $US8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded.
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted for orchestrating a massive financial fraud that led to downfall of crypto trading platform FTX.
Judge orders disgraced crypto mogul to forfeit $11bn in assets and says he showed no remorse for his crimes.
A former inmate at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center hailed the disgraced FTX mogul as a fellow 'gangster' but said he's pretty 'strange.'