Sean “Diddy” Combs has actually employed Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal representative, Alexandra Shapiro, to appeal a New York judge’s choice to keep him secured while he waits for trial for racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in jail in March for the collapse of his crypto exchange, FTX, employed Shapiro to manage his appeal soon after his conviction. Last month, she submitted a 102-page appeal in the Second Circuit, asking for a brand-new trial for Bankman-Fried and implicating the judge managing his case of being unjustly prejudiced versus him.
Legal representatives talked to by CoinDesk are mainly hesitant of the appeal’s possibility of success.
The scammer is presently 6 months into his sentence, and has actually selected to stay in Brooklyn’s infamously unsafe Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) while he waits for the result of his appeal, instead of be relocated to a low-security jail near his household in California.
The not likely outcome of Bankman-Fried’s choice to remain in MDC is that he’s now roommates with Diddy. According to a current report from the New York Times pointing out sources familiar, Bankman-Fried and the rap artist are both living in the exact same system of the prison, oversleeping a “dormitory-style space” with other prisoners.
On Sep. 12, New York district attorneys charged Diddy with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking of kids by force, scams or browbeating and carrying for prostitution.
The sex trafficking charge alone brings an optimal sentence of life in jail, with minimum sentences of 10-15 years depending upon the ages of the victims. The racketeering conspiracy charge and the transport for prostitution charge bring optimal sentences of 20 and 25 years in jail, respectively.
Modified by Nikhilesh De.
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