On Tuesday, as an attorney for Sam Bankman-Fried argued with a judge considering his appeal, an email landed in the inboxes of those who subscribed to the disgraced crypto mogul’s Substack.

The email was from Bankman-Fried’s mother, Barbara, a Stanford Law professor. So there was no confusion, she wrote, “Just to confirm for those asking: yes, the post below was written by Barbara Fried.”

Attached was a 65-page report , written by Fried, which made an aggressive case in defense of her son, who was charged in 2023 with defrauding customers of his crypto exchange FTX out of billions of dollars. The erstwhile billionaire was convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to 25 years in prison .

It’s a sentence Bankman-Fried’s lawyers are appealing in federal cour

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