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Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks New Trial, Blaming Federal Judge for Ridiculing Him

Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at court in New York in June 2023. — Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at court in New York in June 2023.
Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg

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By Chris Dolmetsch and Ava Benny-Morrison

September 13, 2024 at 8:48 PM UTC

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Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

Lawyers for the former chief executive officer argued “everyone rushed to judgment” after FTX’s collapse and that fair-trial principles were swept away in a “sentence first-verdict afterwards tsunami,” according to a brief Friday in the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals in New York.