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Headline rewrite because I had to read it 5 times to understand it:
Caroline Ellison, who then helped now ~~convited~~ convicted Sam Bankman-Fried in his FTX crypto fraud, is herself convicted and sentenced to two years for fraud
edit: fixed spelling thanks @[email protected]
but she also spilled beans on SBF, that's why she's got only 2 years and not 25 like SBF despite being equally deep in the fraud
Not equally deep:
Her sentence was lower because she 1. regretted it and 2. didn't profit from the fraud according to the judge
"She was also ordered to forfeit more than $11bn (£8.2bn) to the court."
That sounds like profit to me. It was the cooperation with the court that really did it.
on top of these 11 billion dollars recovered, meaning that these were stolen, she also lived rent free in whatever bahamas mansion was bought with sbf's money, with all their ranked competitive polycule roommates
it's 100% cooperation with the court that cut down sentence that hard
Reread your attempt again.
Saw the spelling mistake, thanks! It is now even more clear that she wasn't sentenced to fraud because she helped convict Sam Bankman-Fried, but because of her own actions in committing fraud at the same time.
I think you may have misunderstood the headline.
It's not supposed to be "now convicted". She helped the lawyers make a case against SBF. She helped in the process of convicting him. She helped convict him. It's true that she did also help him do the naughty things but that's not what this headline is saying.
Your version of the headline does not convey this aspect.