SBF appeals against its fraud conviction and asks the court for a new trial

According to Foresight News , the New York Times reported that FTX founder SBF has formally appealed against his fraud charges, requesting a retrial and accusing the judge who tried his case of being unfairly biased against him. Last November, a New York jury convicted SBF of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of its cryptocurrency trading platform in November 2022. In March of this year, Lewis Kaplan, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), sentenced SBF to 25 years in prison for the crime, and he has served six months of his sentence. In a 102-page appeal filed on Friday afternoon, SBF's lawyers argued that Judge Kaplan was unfair to the FTX founder throughout the trial, making "sharp remarks that undermined the defense" and "ridiculing" his testimony in front of the jury.