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by porkbeer 818 days ago
You really think he will do the whole sentance? I will be shocked if he sees more than 5.
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Do you think he'll get a sentence that short, or that one of the next two presidencies will pardon him?
Federal prison sentences don't offer a lot of opportunities for early release--you get to shave of 54 days per year of served time, or in other words, he might be able to get out 7 years early were he sentenced for 50 years.

The only way he'll serve less than 5 years is if Trump is elected president and decides to pardon him because no one should go to prison merely for defrauding people out of billions of dollars.