“At the end of the day, my useful life is probably over,” Sam Bankman-Fried whined. “It has been over for a while now.”
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried whined that his “useful life” was over before he was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison.
“At the end of the day, my useful life is probably over,” Bankman-Fried said in a rambling 20-minute statement to a Manhattan court before Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence. “It has been over for a while now.”
The FTX founder, 32, was convicted of stealing more than $8 billion from his customers.
“I have long since given everything that I had to give, and I would do anything to be out there right now trying to help, but I know that’s not going to happen,” he said. “I can’t really do that from prison. I can’t really help.”
Bankman-Fried stood uncuffed in his tan jail garb to deliver his meandering mea culpa.
His hands were tightly clasped at his waist and his head was mostly bowed, with occasional glances at the judge, who called him “unremorseful.
