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- Sam Bankman-Fried bilked FTX customers out of over $8 billion, according to prosecutors.
- FTX bankruptcy lawyers say they could get all their money back.
- The judge sentencing SBF Thursday has to grapple with that gulf — and weigh his possible neurodivergence.
According to federal prosecutors, Sam Bankman-Fried orchestrated one of the biggest criminal frauds in the history of the world. Customers of FTX, his cryptocurrency exchange, lost more than $8 billion, they say.
According to his lawyers, FTX's customers might get all their money back.