FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Appeals Fraud Conviction
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed to appeal his conviction and sentence for fraud and conspiracy charges on Thursday, hours before his deadline to do so.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed to appeal his conviction and sentence for fraud and conspiracy charges on Thursday, hours before his deadline to do so.
Last month, I attended Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing hearing. Not that anyone asked, but I have some thoughts.
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. He won’t be spending time in a maximum security facility, and he’ll be placed as close to his family in the San Francisco Bay Area as possible, but he’s going to prison nonetheless – and he’ll be there for the next 25 years.
A federal judge sentenced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to a quarter-century in prison Thursday.
Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted last year. Here’s how his trial came together.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have pushed back against the U.S. government’s sentencing memo which makes the case for why it thinks the former FTX CEO should be handed a sentence in the range of 40-50 years, a court filing on Wednesday shows.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense team pushed back against what it called the “disturbing” sentencing memorandum filed by the Department of Justice last week in a new letter, saying the DOJ was making the FTX founder out to be someone he was not.
Prosecutors recommended that a federal judge sentence FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to at least 40 and as many as 50 years in prison for his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the collapse of what was once one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s new legal team filed his sentencing memo, alongside 29 different character references and other supporting documents, arguing he shouldn’t face a lengthy prison term after his conviction last November on two fraud and five conspiracy charges.
The FTX bankruptcy estate has been granted approval to sell its stake in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, court filings from Thursday show.