Binance founder’s sentencing hearing
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao will find out today how much jail time he’ll serve for breaking US money laundering laws — if he serves any at all. Prosecutors have requested three years of prison time, double the sentencing guideline of 18 months, because the “scope and ramifications of Zhao’s misconduct were massive,” they wrote in their sentencing memo. Zhao’s lawyers, in their own sentencing memo, said that Zhao deserved no jail time, as “no defendant in a remotely similar BSA [Bank Secrecy...

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