https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/03/sbf-ftx-trial-day-one/ > On the first day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, in a dark mahogany-walled court room at the Southern District of New York, federal district Judge Lewis Kaplan asked the U.S. government if it had ever offered any plea offers to the defendant. > The government’s lawyers confirmed they did not.