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Podcast: Sam Bankman-Fried - Biography Flash
Episode: Biography Flash: Sam Bankman-Fried Fights for Freedom From Behind Bars as Family Leads Desperate Legal Campaign
Description: Sam Bankman-Fried, the jailed FTX founder serving 25 years for massive fraud, keeps stirring drama from behind bars with his family leading the charge. Just days ago, on March 27, Citation Needed published a scathing takedown of his so-called helicopter parents, detailing how Stanford law professor emerita Barbara Fried filed a bizarre February motion for a new trial on his behalf, prompting Judge Lewis Kaplan to slam the door. DL News reports Kaplan fired off a stern Monday letter, demanding Bankman-Fried swear under penalty of perjury by April 15 whether lawyers ghostwrote his pro se filings, since he cant straddle self-representation and counsel...