TREE NEWS update: Sam Bankman-Fried has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn his conviction and his $11 billion forfeiture, his lawyers challenging the exclusion of evidence about customer losses and arguing the forfeiture was excessive. The filing is the latest step in the former FTX CEO’s appeals effort.
SBF Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Conviction and $11B Forfeiture
The appeal turns on two narrow evidentiary questions rather than the underlying fraud findings: whether jurors should have heard loss-related evidence, and whether the forfeiture figure was disproportionate. That framing matters because it tests how much discretion trial courts retain over what juries see in complex crypto cases, and how forfeiture is calculated when customer assets are hard to value. A Supreme Court grant is a long shot, but the forfeiture question could attract attention given how rarely such figures are reviewed. Whether the Court signals interest in the loss-evidence issue is the thing to watch.
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