{"id":613257,"date":"2026-06-12T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/sam-bankman-fried-loses-appeal-to-overturn-25-year-prison-sentence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:52:59","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-loses-appeal-to-overturn-25-year-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/sam-bankman-fried-loses-appeal-to-overturn-25-year-prison-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal to overturn 25-year prison sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS1mcm9tLXRvLWJhbmttYW4tZnJpZWQuanBn.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal to overturn 25-year prison sentence\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court upheld the former FTX chief\u2019s conviction, while his bid for clemency from President Donald Trump appears to face steep political odds.\n<\/p>\n<p>Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried failed to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence tied to the collapse of FTX after a three-judge appeals panel rejected his bid for relief.<\/p>\n<p>The unanimous ruling by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, New York, found that the government\u2019s case against Bankman-Fried was, in the court\u2019s words, \u201cconservatively stated, robust,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/sam-bankman-fried-loses-bid-overturn-crypto-fraud-conviction-2026-06-12\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/pasted-image-1452.png\" width=\"748\" \/>\n      <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-loses-appeal-to-overturn-25-year-prison-sentence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court upheld the former FTX chief\u2019s conviction, while his bid for clemency from President Donald Trump appears to face steep political odds. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried failed to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence tied to the collapse of FTX after a three-judge appeals panel rejected his bid for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-613257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}