Do they happen to use the Russian App Store? If so, the app hadn't been updated to utilize the new protocol because Apple had delisted[1] ProtonVPN in mid July.
We don't know yet, sentencing is separate from the trial that determines innocence or guilt.
Now there will be another hearing in March during which the judge will consider all of the evidence (even that which wasn't allowed in the original trial) to determine what his punishment should be.
The judge will have to abide by the federal sentencing guidelines which specify the punishments and severity they can apply but otherwise it's a matter of their discretion.
> The judge will have to abide by the federal sentencing guidelines
The judge will probably adhere to the sentencing guidelines (and will almost certainly use them as a starting point if not), but the guidelines are, like the Pirate Code, "more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules". The Supreme Court has ruled that the judges are constitutionally empowered to depart in either direction from the guidelines sentences within the statutory minimum and maximum for the offenses on which the offender is convicted.
The judge will not in fact have to abide by the guidelines, which are advisory, and are especially advisory in sui generis trials like this where the damages and victim counts blow out the guideline charts.
Damages blowing out the charts just means a very high guidelines offense level, it doesn't make the guidelines any less applicable (and there's not really charts for victim numbers, there's a few categories for financial offenses, but mainly the guidelines expect beyond a few the aggregate loss factor to handle it, and by the time you blow the top off that chart, you've also very nearly (with just that factor and the base offense level) maxed out to a sentence of life or whatever the maximum is for the offenses on which you were convicted -- it only takes a few additional modifiers like having a substantial portion of the criminal conduct outside of the US to do that.
Way too many people here have read Popehat's (very important!) piece about how reporting of aggregate statutory maximum penalties is usually extremely misleading because in the vast majority of cases the guidelines ranges (1) will be applied, and (2) will be much shorter than the aggregate statutory maximum and are hypercorrecting into "SBF's actual sentence will be far below the aggregate statutory maximum because sentencing guidelines", without any idea of how the guidelines would apply to the facts at issue in the case.
It is sad there isn't some easy linear calculation like divide the amount defrauded by minimum wage and sentence is that number divided by 8 in days. It is always sad when people get discounts just because they stole lot of money compared to some that stole little...
By the federal guidelines, the base sentence for somebody who stole more than 10mm and defrauded more than 500 people is life.
There’s no discounts here.
What seems more likely to me is that life will end up excluded by a statutory maximum, and the judge will exceed the guideline dollar figure based on the degree to which SBF’s crimes exceed the guideline scale.
This is "burst wave lithotripsy," compared to the somewhat-similar existing "shock wave lithotripsy." The new iteration apparently works more quickly and causes less pain, so can be performed while the patient is awake rather than requiring general anesthesia, which would make it practical to do it in, say, an ER or regular doctor's office. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117400/#sec2t... for a comparison of the mechanisms.
> Ureteroscopy is another minimally invasive way to treat stones but often requires a temporary stent, which can be quite uncomfortable.
"The ways we have to currently treat stones have some downsides," he said. "Most involve anesthesia."
In contrast to the shock waves used in ESWL, the BWL procedure uses "short harmonic bursts" of ultrasound energy, potentially enabling the stones to be broken up in a shorter procedure without the need for sedation or anesthesia. Pre-clinical studies supported the effectiveness of BWL in breaking experimental stones of varying size and composition, the study noted.
Having had a Ureteroscopy procedure, I can say it sure as hell doesn’t feel minimally invasive. It (well, post-op until they remove the stint) was almost as unpleasant as the kidney stone.
I agree. the stint was awful and I wasn't able to pass most of the stone fragments until the stint was removed. the strange thing is that my dad had a similarly sized stone about a year after me and had the same procedure. his doctor did not place a stint and he passed all the stone fragments without issue.
McCain was targetted by other Republicans in 2000 for adopting a non-white child. The spread rumours that he'd had a child out of wedlock with a non-white partner.
> In his first presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain was successful in nabbing the New Hampshire primary, beating George W. Bush there. McCain then turned his focus to the South Carolina, a state that political analysts thought McCain would win. Instead, he was met with the nastiest of rumors.
> According to reporting in The Nation magazine, a push poll (a ploy to disseminate information rather than collect it) called voters to ask, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain…if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"
> The push poll implied that John and Cindy McCain’s 9-year-old daughter Bridget, whom they adopted from an orphanage in Bangladesh, was actually the Arizona senator’s love child.
> And that wasn’t all: Rumors also circulated that McCain was a traitor when he served in Vietnam and that his wife was a drug addict, according to The New Yorker magazine.
> McCain lost the South Carolina Republican primary to George W. Bush, whose campaign denied being responsible for the rumors. Bush said at the time that he would fire anyone on his staff if he found out they were involved.
