A federal appeals court on Tuesday appeared skeptical toward Sam Bankman-Fried’s arguments that his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange should be tossed because his trial was unfair. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan questioned whether the exclusion of evidence from Bankman-Fried’s trial tainted the jury’s decision in November to convict him on all seven counts he faced. “If you’re not challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, are you conceding the evidence was sufficient” to convict, Circuit Judge Maria Araujo ... (full story)