FTX’s Disgraced CEO Bankman-Fried Appeals His Conviction and 25-Year Sentence – His Lawyer Says ‘Unfair’ Judge ‘Ridiculed Him’, Jury ‘Only Saw Half the Picture’
As was expected, on Friday, the second biggest Democrat donor and disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried officially appealed his conviction on what prosecutors described as ‘one of the biggest financial frauds in American history’.
His legal team is arguing that the jury that convicted him of stealing billions of dollars from customers of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange only saw “half the picture”.
That would have happened because the ‘unfair’ judge did not allow in critical evidence.
In the brief filed with the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer wrote that US District Judge Lewis Kaplan was mistaken in preventing him from introducing evidence that would have supported his argument that FTX had enough funds to cover customer withdrawals.
