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White collar crimes: Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence is double Elizabeth Holmes’

Cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried received more than double the prison sentence of Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes, but only a small fraction of the term slapped onto infamous financial criminal Bernie Madoff. Bankman-Fried, the fallen “crypto king” and son of Stanford Law professors, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison. […]

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Kurtenbach: Everything is on the line for the Warriors. They’re finally playing like it.

The best piece of direction legendary actor Gary Oldman says he ever received only needed four words to be communicated: “There’s more at stake.” Oldman, playing Commissioner Jim Gordon in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, had just fluffed a take, unbeknownst to him, and the director provided that feedback. Nolan didn’t need to launch into […]