Former CEO of FTX Files Appeal, Wants New Trial Under Different Judge

Published on September 14, 2024

The former CEO of the now-bankrupt FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has appealed his fraud conviction and requested a new trial. Bankman-Fried “was presumed guilty—before he was even charged,” his lawyers wrote in the 102-page brief filed on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. “He was presumed guilty by the media. He was presumed guilty by the FTX debtor estate and its lawyers. He was presumed guilty by federal prosecutors eager for quick headlines. And he was presumed guilty by the judge who presided over his trial,” the brief states. Bankman-Fried was the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and sister trading firm Alameda Research....

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