Sam Bankman-Fried deserves to spend just a few years in prison, lawyers for the convicted FTX founder have argued in a last-ditch appeal for clemency, portraying him as a “selfless” and “altruistic” young man who “committed his life to philanthropy”.
被定罪的FTX创始人萨姆•班克曼-弗里德(Sam Bankman-Fried)的律师在最后请求宽大处理时辩称，班克曼-弗里德应该只被判处几年监禁，并称他是一个“无私”和“利他”的年轻人，“一生致力于慈善事业”。
The former crypto tycoon, who was found guilty on seven charges of fraud and money laundering last year, is a “first-time, non-violent offender . . . in a matter where victims are poised to recover — were always poised to recover — a hundred cents on the dollar”, they said in a court filing on Tuesday.
他们在周二提交给法庭的一份文件中表示：这位前加密货币大亨是“首次非暴力犯罪者……而且受害者有望获得百分之百的赔偿。”班克曼-弗里德去年因七项欺诈和洗钱指控被判有罪。
Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said an appropriate sentence would range from five and a half to six and a half years. They called a 100-year sentence recommended by probation officers “grotesque” and “barbaric” and said that as a person with autism spectrum disorder, their client was “uniquely vulnerable in a prison population”.
班克曼-弗里德的律师说，适当的刑期应该在五年半到六年半之间。他们称缓刑官建议的100年刑期是“荒唐的”和“野蛮的”，并表示，作为一名自闭症谱系障碍患者，他们的当事人在监狱中属于特别易受伤害的群体。