Disgraced ‘Crypto Bro’ Sam Bankman-Fried Formally Asks for Trump Pardon, Two Years After Conviction for ‘Historical Financial Fraud’
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TL;DR
- Sam Bankman-Fried has formally applied for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.
- He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 after being convicted of a multi-billion dollar fraud at FTX.
- Prosecutors described the FTX collapse as 'one of the biggest financial frauds in American history'.
- Bankman-Fried is reportedly maintaining his innocence in prison interviews.
- Trump previously stated he had no plans to pardon Bankman-Fried.
- The application was submitted to the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney Office.