Key Highlights
- Sam Bankman‑Fried accuses Judge Kaplan of dropping political shade at the FTX trial.
- He says Kaplan “muted” the idea of a political donation vehicle like it was a 90s fax machine.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman‑Fried just fired up an entire courtroom on X, claiming Judge Lewis Kaplan was less “fair judge” and more “political pundit.”
In a tweet that could double as a sitcom premise, SBF blasted the judge’s comment during sentencing, calling it a blatant political endorsement… because, why not?
Clinton‑appointed judge Lewis Kaplan made his political bias very clear when sentencing me and @rsalame7926.
Kaplan ranted about how I “set up a vehicle for making political donations to the right.”
“The state of our political life in this country is in jeopardy,” he said, and…
– SBF (@SBF_FTX) February 18, 2026
Focus on Political Contributions
According to Bankman‑Fried, Kaplan was less interested in legal precedent and more in a “political take‑away” mural. Capitalism, he accuses, feels the sting of a judge who’s got his eyes on the next campaign spotlight.
Bankman‑Fried even threw in a political endorsement, calling out President Trump while painting the judge as a “partisan, out‑of‑control activist”-a neat one‑liner that could win a second season on “Judge & Judge.”
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2026-02-18 17:08