Appeals court upholds Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-year sentence, rejecting bid for new trial in landmark FTX fraud case
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Promote with Leviathan News98% of FTX creditors being lined up for up to 118% of allowed USD claims never cleaned up the criminal case; BTC, SOL, and ETH balances were frozen at petition-date prices while the estate monetized Anthropic and other venture bags. The appeals loss preserves the hard line after Celsius, Voyager, and BlockFi: a bull-market recovery cannot retroactively sanitize customer-fund rehypothecation. The path left is political clemency, with SBF’s pardon push now doing more work than his “FTX was solvent” appeal theory.
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