Howard Fischer was quoted in a recent CNN Business article, "Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Sentencing this Week. Here’s What to Expect"

“There’s this pretense that sentencing is done in this quasi-scientific fashion,” said Howard Fischer, a partner at law firm Moses Singer in New York. “The fact is, there is an enormous amount of latitude that the … sentencing guidelines allow a court to exercise.”  In regard to his pretrial conduct, Fischer states that "his behavior may come back to haunt Bankman-Fried in sentencing. The thing that hurts Bankman-Fried is his pretrial conduct,” he said. “His disregard for the norms of the criminal justice system is quite shocking.”  Fischer concludes by adding, “it’s almost as if you say, ‘Yeah, I stole all this money … but I also bought five lottery tickets, and guess what? One of them won, so no harm, no foul.’”