Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy, has applied for a pardon from US President Donald Trump.
The website of the Office of the Pardon Attorney of the
Department of Justice lists a request by Bankman-Fried for a pardon and says
its status is "pending."
Trump, in an interview with The New York Times in January,
said he did not plan to issue a pardon to the 34-year-old Bankman-Fried.
Bankman-Fried, known as SBF, became a billionaire before age
30 and turned FTX, a small start-up he co-founded in 2019, into the world's
second largest crypto exchange platform.
But in November 2022, Bankman-Fried's rise came crashing
down, with a deluge of customer withdrawals and revelations that billions of
dollars had been illegally moved from FTX to Bankman-Fried's personal hedge
fund, Alameda Research
He was convicted by a federal jury in New York in November
2023 on seven counts of fraud, embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.
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