Freedom Fighter or Fool? Jury’s Out on Arrested Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith

“As long as it stays in the limelight, the more inclined the prosecution may be to make an example out of it," Dolan said of Griffith’s case “The Southern District of New York has historically been shown to be a leader, across the nation, in departing below the United States sentencing guidelines.

But that's not necessarily true in white-collar cases

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