Bankman-Fried’s Legal Gambit | Yakima News

Yakima News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Sep 11, 2026 · 1m

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced FTX founder behind a $11 billion fraud, is asking the Supreme Court for a do-over — arguing he deserves a new trial and that the order to repay billions should be tossed. His legal team claims prosecutors shouldn’t have been allowed to show victims lost money during his trial, since fraud convictions don’t always require proof of actual harm. They’re pushing back on a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld fraud charges based on deception alone — but want to flip the script: if the government can bring in loss evidence, why can’t they present…