Fight Over Bankman-Fried’s Prison Sentence Starts Tuesday (1)

Feb. 27, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

Sam Bankman-Fried’sattorneys are scheduled to outline how much time he should spend in prison in a memo Tuesday, ahead of his March 28 sentencing.

The 31-year-old faces up to 20 years in prison on each of the most serious charges after he was convicted in November of funneling customer funds from his FTX crypto currency exchange into an affiliated hedge fund for risky investments, real estate and executive loans before both collapsed in 2022.

2023: Sam Bankman-Fried departs court on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg

The sentencing will be a first look into Bankman-Fried’s post-conviction strategy after spending all of his trial last year insisting that he had ...

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