This is a linkpost for https://nypost.com/2024/04/01/business/sam-bankman-fried-speaks-out-for-first-time-after-25-year-prison-sentence/
https://nypost.com/2024/04/01/business/sam-bankman-fried-speaks-out-for-first-time-after-25-year-prison-sentence (a)
“I never thought that what I was doing was illegal,” Bankman-Fried told ABC News on Sunday. “But I tried to hold myself to a high standard, and I certainly didn’t meet that standard.”
~99% of the time you prevail on appeal as a criminal defendant, you get a new trial, not a mandate commanding the district court to acquit you. Even after his trial experience, SBF seems either unwilling or unable to understand why talking to the press is a bad idea for someone in his shoes.