"The court declines to order restitution due to the complexity of the case and the number of victims. It instead grants the government's motion to authorize the United States to compensate victims with finally forfeited assets through a remission process, as restitution would be impractical in this case."
An understandable move, but as erver with these massive financial crimes:
1) The public (U.S. in this case) has to make it good when some may well have pensions etc which were invested and so lost money in the first place
2) I suspect people outside of the U.S. will not be compensated. I get why, but very much sucks for them.
I'm often not a fan of people getting over-long prison sentences, but I think Sam Bankman-Freid deserves what he got if he serves all of it (it's federal prison so possibly he will?). Why? Because of the magnitiude of the crime, the attempted (and possibly actual) corruption of politicians, the loss to individuals and (this is postulation admittedly) reponsibility for some self-deletions of people who lost everything.