Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the FTX exchange platform, was convicted of fraud in November. Judge Lewis Kaplan's verdict will fall this Thursday.
American prosecutors are seeking a sentence of between 40 and 50 years in prison. “I think he is very convinced that he had no criminal intent. He is not innocent but he feels innocent,” his biographer Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite (Paperback editions) recently explained in an interview with Les Échos.