Odaily Planet Daily latest news, SBF formally appealed against its fraud charges! 🎉 In a 102-page appeal filed on Friday afternoon, SBF's lawyers asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn the original conviction and assign a new judge for a retrial on the grounds that the judge hearing his case was unfairly biased against SBF.
Looking back to November last year, 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 in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), sentenced SBF to 25 years in prison, and he has served six months of his sentence.
Despite the market turmoil, Bitcoin remains strong and continues to attract investors' attention. 🚀