- Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers request the court for a maximum of 6.5 years of prison sentence for him.
- The lawyers recommend the judge consider Bankman-Fried’s charitable deeds and societal commitment.
- Asserting that his accounts were not for his personal gains, the lawyers requested the court not to forfeit any assets.
The ill-famed Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers requested the court to limit his imprisonment to a maximum of 6.5 years. In a 98-page memo submitted on Tuesday, the lawyers requested U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to mitigate the punishment while the judge could issue a longer sentence of 20 years.
The lawyers recommended the court consider Bankman-Fried’s charitable activities and other deeds that demonstrate his societal commitments. The memo questioned the unsympathetic descriptions of Bankman-Fried. Allegedly, the FTX founder was labeled a “sociopath” and a man with “no morals, remorse or empathy.” He was also addressed as “one of history’s most notorious fraudsters.”
However, the lawyers tried to surface the “selfless, altruistic” Bankman-Fried, who “cares deeply about other people.” In the memo, the lawyers …
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