The defense team for Sam Bankman-Fried has openly criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent sentencing memorandum, labeling it as unnecessarily harsh and misrepresentative of Bankman-Fried’s character. What Happened: In a response letter filed on Tuesday, the team stated, “The memorandum distorts reality to support its precious ‘loss’ narrative and casts Sam as a depraved super-villain.” The defense contends that the portrayal of Bankman-Fried by the DOJ “attributes to him dark and megalomaniacal motives that fly in the face of the record.” They argue that the government’s approach i…