A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the now-defunct FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
In an opinion issued on June 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in the New York City borough of Manhattan, rejected arguments from Bankman-Fried’s attorneys that his 2023 trial was unfair and that the presiding judge was biased against him, among other claims.
