Everybody was out to get Sam Bankman-Fried after the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange in 2022. At least that’s what his lawyers will tell an appeals court Tuesday as the FTX co-founder seeks to reverse his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers claim he was wrongly convicted in a rush to judgment by the press, prosecutors, the team that took over FTX in the wake of its stunning implosion, and, critically, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan. “Sam Bankman-Fried was never presumed innocent,” his lawyers argued in a brief previously filed with the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New ... (full story)