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How Judge Lewis Kaplan has presided over the SBF fraud trial

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in a courtroom sketch, Oct. 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial has featured complicated testimony about computer code, cryptocurrency and corporate finance, but U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s dry sense of humor has provided the occasional moment of levity.

Kaplan, a senior judge in Manhattan federal court, has also frequently scolded SBF’s defense lawyers for asking repetitive questions, once accusing them outside the jury’s presence of trying to “set a record for the longest trial.”

The trial, in which SBF is seeking to defend himself from charges of stealing billions of dollars from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, is far from the first high-profile matter the 78-year-old Bill Clinton appointee has overseen recently. Learn more about Judge Kaplan.

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