{"id":656188,"date":"2026-09-11T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/sbf-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-conviction-11b-forfeiture-report\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:53:53","slug":"sbf-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-conviction-11b-forfeiture-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/sbf-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-conviction-11b-forfeiture-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SBF asks Supreme Court to overturn conviction, $11B forfeiture: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M27MET6B0RDV87AVRKSVYNJF\/sbf-newspapers.jpg\" alt=\"SBF asks Supreme Court to overturn conviction, $11B forfeiture: Report\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried\u2019s lawyers challenged the exclusion of evidence about customer losses and argued that his $11 billion forfeiture was excessive.<\/p>\n<p>Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly asked the US Supreme Court to overturn his 2023 fraud conviction.<\/p>\n<p>He sought a new trial and the reversal of an $11 billion forfeiture order, according to a Thursday court filing seen by <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/10\/politics\/sam-bankman-fried-appeals-conviction-to-supreme-court\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers argued that the trial judge excluded evidence that his investments were sound and would have covered FTX customers\u2019 losses. They also argued that the $11 billion forfeiture violated the Eighth Amendment\u2019s ban on excessive fines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sbf-appeals-supreme-court-conviction-forfeiture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bankman-Fried\u2019s lawyers challenged the exclusion of evidence about customer losses and argued that his $11 billion forfeiture was excessive. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly asked the US Supreme Court to overturn his 2023 fraud conviction. He sought a new trial and the reversal of an $11 billion forfeiture order, according to a Thursday court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-656188","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\/656188","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=656188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}