Indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried urges court to toss charges

Sam Bankman-Fried, who has long denied stealing from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, on Monday asked a U.S. judge to throw out criminal charges against him over the now-bankrupt FTX’s collapse.

In a filing in Manhattan federal court, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said many cryptocurrency exchanges collapsed during a broad market crash in 2022, and that prosecutors hastily charged their client in a “rush to judgment.”