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According to BlockchainReporter, Sam Bankman-Fried petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his fraud conviction and $11 billion forfeiture.
According to BlockchainReporter, former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to throw out his fraud conviction and cancel an $11 billion forfeiture order. Filed on Thursday, the petition marks the final stage of his direct appeal after lower courts rejected previous challenges.
Bankman-Fried's legal team argued that the trial was flawed and the forfeiture disproportionate. Following his 2023 conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges related to the November 2022 collapse of FTX, he was sentenced to roughly 25 years in prison. If the Supreme Court declines to hear the case, his conviction and sentence will stand.
The petition has renewed debates over the prosecution's aggressiveness and the harshness of the sentence, contrasting with views from victims and prosecutors who point to the massive scale of the fraud. A decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the petition is expected in the coming months.
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