Bankman-Fried Worked on Math, Was Not a Predator: Lawyer

• Sam Bankman-Fried did not have malice in his heart, said his defense lawyer. 
• SBF was sentenced to 25 years behind bars after being found guilty.
• The crypto entrepreneur is looking forward to his customers getting paid.

Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF in the digital asset space, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, and his defense attorney, Marc Mukasey, told the court that the disgraced crypto entrepreneur is “misunderstood” and wasn’t driven by predation or malice.

According to the speech posted by Inner City Press on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Mukasey said that Bankman-Fried did not want to “inflict pain on anyone in any way” and made “decisions with math in his head, not malice in his heart,” while adding:

“He’s an awkward math nerd. He’s into veganism. He has an off-the-chart intellect. He is a beautiful puzzle. He can parse words better than a Talmudic scholar. He was a billionaire unconcerned about material possessions.”

The lawyer said that SBF’s mother, Barbara Fried, “says he is misunderstood,” while adding that it is easy for people to consider him “an old-fashioned story of the gre…

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