I can't really get behind the concept of 25 years for a kid this age who still could potentially have a lot to offer. He'll end up with significantly less than that given the parole system, but it's still awfully harsh.

We live in a society that focuses on punishment instead of rehabilitation. He will not be rehabilitated in prison, and he certainly won't be able to offer restitution to the people he ripped off beyond whatever funds have been confiscated.

Where were the regulators when all this was happening? Why were people so eager to gamble their money away on ghost money? I have many questions.

He should have been sentenced to a rigorous program of community service that *required* him to use his talents to develop a restitution formula for the people he ripped off. He had already shown a tendency toward charity. Find that part of him instead of sending him away to a cold, dark place for the bulk of his adult life.

But it's easier to just shove him into a dark hole and forget about him, isnt' it?