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Reform UK Chairman Lee Anderson called for an investigation into the $50,000 political donation accepted by Defence Secretary Wes Streeting, which was allegedly linked to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried through a think tank.
According to BeInCrypto, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit officially issued the mandate in the SBF case on August 4, marking the formal conclusion of Sam Bankman-Fried's appellate proceedings. The one-page order affirmed the original verdict without providing any new reasoning, leaving his 25-year prison sentence and approximately $11 billion forfeiture order unchanged. Previously, on June 12, the panel rejected SBF's appeals on all seven counts. In the opinion, Judge Parker noted that while SBF publicly assured customers, investors, and regulators of the safety of FTX funds, he misappropriated customer funds for real estate, political donations, and personal investments. Currently, SBF's only remaining judicial recourse is to petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court within 90 days, but the Supreme Court's acceptance rate is extremely low. Additionally, SBF has separately submitted a clemency application to the Department of Justice, but Senators Cynthia Lummis and Ruben Gallego have jointly introduced a resolution opposing the granting of clemency to him.
Odaily News, Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett analyzed that the US Senate recently passed a resolution opposing the pardon of FTX founder SBF unanimously. The resolution, co-sponsored by Senators Ruben Gallego and Cynthia Lummis, serves to record the Senate's opposition to pardoning SBF publicly. The analysis points out that this resolution is merely a political statement, carries no legal binding force, cannot restrict the US President's power to grant pardons, and will not alter the current judicial process of the SBF case.