Global law firm Reed Smith secured a rare time-served sentence on August 12, 2025, for its client, crypto mining executive Sergei Potapenko, in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington before Judge Robert S Lasnik. A time-served sentence equals the amount of time already spent in custody.
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