The attorneys of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried say that the prosecution’s sentence suggestions for his or her consumer are “disturbing.”
In a brand new letter addressed to Choose Lewis A. Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys say that the sentence suggestion is draconian and types the previous chief government as a “supervillain.”
“The federal government’s memorandum is disturbing.
With marked hostility, the memorandum distorts actuality to help its valuable “loss” narrative and casts Sam as a wicked super-villain; it attributes to him darkish and megalomaniacal motives that fly within the face of the report; it makes apocalyptic prophecies of recidivism; and it adopts a medieval view of punishment to achieve what quantities to a death-in-prison sentencing suggestion. That’s not justice.”
Earlier this week, the prosecutors within the case beneficial a 40-50-year sentence for Bankman-Fried, who was discovered responsible in October of defrauding buyers and mishandling buyer funds associated to the multibillion-dollar collapse of crypto alternate FTX in November 2022.
The attorneys elaborate by saying that the federal government is selecting to disregard that FTX’s chapter proceedings “will end in prospects and lenders being made complete,” portray Bankman-Fried as a “monster,” and overblowing his affinity to re-offend.
The letter concludes by saying the prosecution’s intent to maintain Bankman-Fried behind bars for that lengthy just because he may theoretically perpetrate fraud once more is terrifying.
“At age 32, the federal government desires to interrupt Sam Bankman-Fried. They ignore utterly his situation and vulnerabilities. As an alternative, they urge, menacingly, that the sentence imposed should ‘disable’ him even from ‘being ready’ the place he theoretically ‘may’ perpetrate a fraud. That may be a horrifying interpretation of particular deterrence.”
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