First Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to prison for his crypto crime. Now, it’s the turn of Do Kwon, who is widely regarded as crypto’s most infamous fraudster after Bankman-Fried. On Thursday, the 34 year-old was sentenced to 15 years in prison, after being charged with misleading investors and inflating the value of his company’s cryptocurrencies known as Terra and Luna.
At his sentencing hearing in New York, the judge chastised Kwon, suggesting he had succumbed to the worst elements of an industry known for get-rich-quick swindles. “You have been bitten by the crypto bug and I don’t think that’s changed. You must be incapacitated. If not for your guilty plea, my sentence would have been higher,” said U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer, according to a tweet from Inner City Press, which provides reliable reporting on court proceedings.
