U.S. federal judge Lewis Kaplan refused to delay the sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, after his lawyers asked it to be rescheduled from March 28 to "early-mid May 2024." Bankman-Fried is scheduled for a pre-sentence interview with the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System, which should recommend a sentence, on Thursday. His lawyers argued that the defense needs more time to get ready for the sentencing process. The defense needs "to collect materials necessary for the sentencing submission and to prepare for the presentence interview," the lawyers wrote, ... (full story)