The lawyer responsible for Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial defense has admitted that the case was “almost impossible” to win from the outset.

In a one-on-one interview with Bloomberg, Stanford Law School professor David Mills recounts how Bankman-Fried’s reluctance to follow his recommendations, as well as the damning testimony of his former associates, had the FTX founder’s back against the ropes.

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“I thought it was almost impossible to win a case when three or four founders are all saying you did it,” Mills told the publication.

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