Sam Bankman-Fried Drops Request for Retrial, Citing Unfair Trial Concerns
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-defunct FTX cryptocurrency exchange, has formally withdrawn his motion for a retrial, citing concerns that he would not receive a fair hearing. Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for his role in the exchange's 2022 collapse, had initially filed the motion through his mother, Barbara Fried, who claimed that new evidence had c…
April 23, 2026, 11:26 a.m.