“When a decide is sentencing a defendant in a multi-count case, assuming conviction on a number of counts, judges usually say ‘I’m going to distill this right down to what the alleged crime is,’” Auerbach stated. “If the important crime is, let’s assume a conviction that Bankman-Fried misled his buyers, his lenders and his prospects, mainly these are all variations on the identical theme, so [the judge will] sentence for that core wrongful conduct.”
