{"id":97710,"date":"2026-05-30T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=97710"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:45:07","slug":"celsius-founder-seeks-to-overturn-12-year-fraud-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/celsius-founder-seeks-to-overturn-12-year-fraud-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Celsius Founder Seeks to Overturn 12-Year Fraud Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of Celsius, has filed a motion in court to overturn his 12-year prison sentence, citing ineffective defense, a conflict of interest with attorneys from Mukasey &#038; Young LLP, and the application of the &#8220;fruit of the poisonous tree&#8221; doctrine. In his appeal, he also linked Celsius&#8217;s losses to alleged actions by Sam Bankman-Fried involving CEL and stETH tokens. Mashinsky had previously pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of Celsius, has filed a motion in court to overturn his 12-year prison sentence, citing ineffective defense, a conflict of interest with attorneys from Mukasey &#038; Young LLP, and the application of the &#8220;fruit of the poisonous tree&#8221; doctrine. In his appeal, he also linked Celsius&#8217;s losses to alleged actions by Sam Bankman-Fried involving CEL and stETH tokens. Mashinsky had previously pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Alex Mashinsky seeks to overturn his 12-year sentence, citing ineffective defense and conflicts.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oneliners"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"2","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Alex Mashinsky seeks to overturn his 12-year sentence, citing ineffective defense and conflicts.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97712,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97710\/revisions\/97712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}