Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers say prosecutors are treating their client like a 'depraved super-villain' with 'dark and megalomaniacal motives'

• Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers slammed the 40 to 50-year prison sentence prosecutors recommended.
• Bankman-Fried's lawyers accused prosecutors of casting him as a "depraved super-villain."
• The sentence, his lawyers said, was akin to "a death-in-prison sentencing recommendation."

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried are pushing back against the 40 to 50-year prison sentence prosecutors have recommended for their client.