CZ getting max 18 months looks light because of the plea deal. At least when CZ's going to be released to society his billionaire status won't be altered.
That is true that CZ seems to have a lot of financial resource, yet even the last year, it is quite amazing how much trade volume that Binance has lost.. but they do keep going so presumptively they are still profitable, even though many 10s of billions of dollars of value were removed from their platform.
They've run a profitable business from 0 to billions in a few years. Now Binance's holding billions in banks so they'll pay the fines. It's going to be a profitable company after they've paid court fines because it's effective. It's the busiest exchange in the world.
It isn't over for CZ he's got a big lawsuit against him. Investors said they didn't know Binance was doing criminal things so they'll sue.
Sizemore vs Zhao it's going to be $1B civil case. One more $1B lawsuit's against Cristiano Ronaldo's because ppl say they've invested in BNB tokens & traded after his ads hit headlines.
Do you have links for those civil cases?
While CZ seemed to save Binance and it will continue to operate without having troubles, he's got his own battle to face on the next one.
Anyway, he's got a lot of money that's in the form of crypto just as he said before that he don't hold that much fiat. So, I guess that he'll be force to sell large sums of holdings that he's got so that he can have funds to defend himself with these lawsuits that are filed personally against him.
If CZ was working in his business capacity, then there might not be an ability to "pierce the corporate veil" and to go after CZ personally, but even if they do, it is likely still going to be a company expense to cover their officers who are carrying out their official duties.