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Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried filed a memo in Manhattan federal court Tuesday arguing that their client doesn’t deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison, calling a recommended 100-year sentence “barbaric” and “grotesque.”
Bankman-Fried, who is 31, was convicted in November on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy for his role in the collapse of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange he co-founded. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he could face a maximum of 110 years.
In the memo, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Marc Mukasey, asks the judge overseeing the case to reject the
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