Former Coinbase Employee Seeks to Limit Jail Term to 10 Months in Insider Trading Case
“The Defendant respectfully submits that a sentence of no more than 10 months incarceration, together with several other consequences of Ishan’s conviction, would impose a sufficient, but not excessive, punishment for the crimes of conviction,” said the filing.
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