Sam Bankman-Fried has applied for a presidential pardon, submitting a petition to the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney Office more than two years after his conviction over the collapse of FTX.
The application, which requests a “pardon after completion of sentence,” has been assigned case number P338490.
Bankman-Fried was convicted of orchestrating a fraud that cost lenders, customers, and investors $10 billion before FTX collapsed. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 after being convicted on seven counts of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.
The filing puts a bureaucratic stamp on a clemency campaign Bankman-Fried has been running through social media and appearances with conservative media in an attempt to get President Trump’s attention. The effort however has been unsuccessful to date.
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