SBF Appeals Fraud Conviction, Requests New Judge

According to Odaily, SBF has officially appealed his fraud conviction. In a 102-page appeal submitted on Friday afternoon, SBF's lawyers requested the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn the original conviction and appoint a new judge for a retrial, citing unfair bias from the presiding judge. Last November, a New York jury found SBF guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency trading platform in November 2022. In March of this year, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) sentenced SBF to 25 years in prison. SBF has currently served six months of his sentence.