Facing a 25-year prison term, Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed his conviction for stealing $8 billion from FTX customers. The ex-billionaire crypto wunderkind s downfall involved fraud charges and commingling assets.
In a letter filed on Friday night in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said the "strong public interest" in a prompt resolution of their case against the 31-year-old former billionaire outweighed the benefits of a second trial.