Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam and I argued more than once about the same thing: his refusal to accept ANY responsibility for what he did. Not once did he admit he’d done anything wrong — even after I told him repeatedly he could never begin to redeem himself without that acknowledgment. You don’t earn a pardon when you can’t admit, even to yourself, that you did wrong.

— Michael Avenatti, on X, criticizing the pardon effort related to Sam Bankman-Fried; former attorney of Stormy Daniels

FTX customers were defrauded as soon as Bankman-Fried transferred their money to Alameda regardless of how strongly he believed he might later return the money,

— Circuit Judge Barrington Parker, writing on behalf of the panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals