Tag: Grotesque

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer says sentencing the FTX founder to a 100-year prison term would be ‘grotesque’ and ‘barbaric’

Probation officers have recommended a 100-year prison term for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. “That recommendation is grotesque,” Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Marc Mukasey said on Tuesday. Mukasey said Bankman-Fried’s sentence should instead be between five to six-and-a-half years. Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer thinks that the probation office has gone too far with the punishment they want to mete […]

‘Grotesque’ to call Jan. 6 defendants ‘hostages’

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – Calling those charged in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol “hostages” is a grotesque comparison, the White House said on Monday after Republican former President Donald Trump called for those jailed over the riot to be released. “It is grotesque to make those type of comparison,” White […]