June 12, 2026
The Second Circuit on Friday upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction and an $11 billion forfeiture order in an opinion that found the ex-CEO's claims that he could have made FTX customers whole didn't matter in the face of the government's "robust" evidence of his role in the fraud that felled the cryptocurrency exchange.
June 08, 2026
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, has asked President Donald Trump to pardon him for defrauding customers who placed billions of dollars with the fallen cryptocurrency exchange, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney.
April 22, 2026
Imprisoned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has told a New York federal judge that, although his attorney parents made suggestions regarding his motion for a new trial, he wrote the brief himself, but now wants to withdraw the request, because he doesn't "believe I will get a fair hearing on this topic in front of you."
March 17, 2026
A federal judge in Manhattan cautioned retired Stanford Law School professor Barbara Fried, the mother of convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, that she cannot make filings on behalf of her son in his bid for a new trial, saying she has not filed an appearance with the court.
March 12, 2026
Federal prosecutors fired back at convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's pro se bid for a new trial as a "transparent attempt" to further allegedly false narratives that his collapsed crypto exchange was solvent, and he was a victim of political retribution.
November 04, 2025
The Second Circuit suggested Tuesday that the government's $11 billion forfeiture order against Sam Bankman-Fried may be unconstitutionally large, noting that the staggering amount tops the raft of cases tasking the court with determining if such money judgments pass Eighth Amendment muster.
September 23, 2024
A group of experts on neurodiversity told the Second Circuit that Sam Bankman-Fried, who has said he has autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, may have been hurt at trial by a "cognitive and communication style" that at times frustrated the trial judge.
September 13, 2024
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday launched an appeal of his fraud conviction over the cryptocurrency exchange's historic collapse, issuing a broadside against the judge who oversaw his trial and saying FTX's debtor counsel Sullivan & Cromwell LLP acted as an arm of the prosecution.
April 17, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal of his conviction and 25-year prison sentence may cite a "rather unprecedented" trial procedure in which the FTX founder gave provisional testimony before officially taking the witness stand last year, one of his attorneys said Wednesday.