Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, lately sentenced to 25 years in federal jail, has requested a choose enable him to quickly stay incarcerated within the New York Metropolis space as a substitute of California.
In an April 8 submitting in United States District Court docket for the Southern District of New York, Bankman-Fried’s attorneys asked Choose Lewis Kaplan to approve an order permitting the previous FTX CEO to stay on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, the place he has been since August 2023. In response to the authorized staff, SBF wished to remain on the Brooklyn jail to “facilitate entry to his appellate counsel” as a part of his anticipated attraction for his conviction and sentencing.
Earlier than Choose Kaplan introduced Bankman-Fried’s 25-year sentence on March 28, legal professional Marc Mukasey stated his staff intended to appeal SBF’s conviction on seven felony counts. No submitting appeared within the on-line portal for the U.S. Court docket Of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the time of publication. Some authorized consultants have additionally advised that the previous FTX CEO might have years knocked off his time in jail primarily based on good habits.
The choose initially dominated that Bankman-Fried would serve his sentence at a medium- or low-security jail within the San Francisco Bay Space, seemingly as a result of relations dwelling close by. Earlier than Choose Kaplan revoked SBF’s bail in August 2023, the previous FTX CEO was primarily confined to his dad and mom’ California house close to Stanford College.
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Bankman-Fried was one of many solely people tied to the collapse of FTX and Alameda Analysis to plead not responsible and face a jury. Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh and Ryan Salame — others related to the crypto corporations charged in the identical case as SBF — pleaded responsible and accepted offers.
Salame is scheduled to be sentenced on Could 28, nevertheless it was unclear when Wang, Ellison, and Singh would seem earlier than a choose. Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded responsible to 1 felony depend in a separate case involving cryptocurrency alternate Binance, can be sentenced on April 30.
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