{"id":127147,"date":"2024-09-16T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ftx-founder-bankman-fried-files-appeal-seeks-new-trial"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:46:19","slug":"ftx-founder-bankman-fried-files-appeal-seeks-new-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ftx-founder-bankman-fried-files-appeal-seeks-new-trial","title":{"rendered":"FTX founder Bankman-Fried files appeal, seeks new trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>After getting a 25-year prison sentence, FTX founder and former CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried has filed an appeal over his fraud and conspiracy conviction that saw the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange platform and a related hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was presumed guilty by federal prosecutors eager for quick headlines. And he was presumed guilty by the judge who presided over his trial,&#8221; his lawyer wrote in an appeal filed in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was presumed guilty \u2013 before he was even charged. He was presumed guilty by the media. He was presumed guilty by the FTX debtor estate and its lawyers,&#8221; the appeal added.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried, 32, faced multiple charges involving the implosion of FTX, which was once the world&#8217;s third-largest crypto trading platform by daily volume, and its relation to hedge fund Alameda Research&#8217;s trading accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Last November he was found guilty by a jury in New York of all seven counts, and a forfeiture of $11.2 billion was ordered by Judge Lewis Kaplan.<\/p>\n<p>The defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX and its hedge fund Alameda Research agreed in August to pay $12.7 billion in a settlement with the US&#8217; Commodity Futures Trading Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Kenya Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. After getting a 25-year prison sentence, FTX founder and former CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried has filed an appeal over his fraud and conspiracy conviction that saw the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange platform and a related hedge fund. &#8220;He was presumed guilty by federal prosecutors eager for quick headlines. 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