Bankman-Fried Files Last-Ditch Appeal With Supreme Court

Sam Bankman-Fried has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his fraud conviction and the $11 billion restitution order. His lawyers argue the trial court wrongly allowed evidence of customer losses while blocking proof that enough assets always existed to repay them with interest.

The Second Circuit upheld the verdict in June. The new petition claims both the evidentiary ruling and the size of the fine deserve review, calling the financial penalty an unconstitutional lifelong burden.

Rejection by the Supreme Court would likely end the case, leaving the 25-year sentence intact. The former FTX chief, once a major Democratic donor, now publicly backs Trump’s policies but has been told no pardon is coming.

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