{"id":73164,"date":"2026-02-19T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73164"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:16:33","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-alleges-judge-uses-trump-playbook-on-him-to-block-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73164","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried Alleges Judge Uses &#8216;Trump Playbook&#8217; On Him To Block Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Sam Bankman-Fried<\/strong> said an appeals court just overturned a conviction because Judge <strong>Lewis Kaplan<\/strong> wrongfully blocked evidence\u2014the same judge who sentenced SBF to 25 years and presided over Trump\u2019s <strong>E. Jean Carroll<\/strong> case.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Appeals Court Precedent<\/h3>\n<p>The Second Circuit threw out a conviction in a separate case, finding that Judge Kaplan wrongfully excluded evidence of intent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court vacated several counts and remanded for further proceedings\u2014a significant rebuke of Kaplan\u2019s evidentiary decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried immediately connected the dots. \u201cKaplan repeatedly cut off my testimony and excluded every kind of evidence the government asked him to,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SBF_FTX\/status\/2024472689725850004?s=20\">posted<\/a> on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His pending Second Circuit appeal argues the same exclusion of intent evidence violated his right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>The excluded evidence falls into several categories: lawyers approved the entities and bank accounts FTX used, lawyers drafted &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50721987\/sam-bankman-fried-alleges-judge-uses-trump-playbook-on-him-to-block-evidence?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Sam\" bankman-fried alleges judge uses playbook on him to block evidence>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bankman-Fried said an appeals court just overturned a conviction because Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongfully blocked evidence\u2014the same judge who sentenced SBF to 25 years and presided over Trump\u2019s E. Jean Carroll case. The Appeals Court Precedent The Second Circuit threw out a conviction in a separate case, finding that Judge Kaplan wrongfully excluded evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-73164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}