{"id":448,"date":"2026-06-08T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:44:44","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-serving-25-years-for-fraud-formally-applies-for-trump-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried\u2014Serving 25 Years For Fraud\u2014Formally Applies For Trump Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>who else has trump pardoned?<\/h2>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s second term has been marked by an unusually high volume of clemency for white-collar convicts. An <u>NBC News analysis<\/u> from January found that grouping accounted for more than half of his 88 individual pardons, with money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud the most frequent charges. Crypto figures have done especially well.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=446\">Airlines Take 50% Profit Hit Due To $100 Billion Jet Fuel Increase<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ross Ulbricht<\/strong>, the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where people used bitcoin to buy illegal drugs and other contraband, received a full pardon in January 2025, ending a double life sentence after more than a decade in prison.<\/li>\n<li>BitMEX founders <strong>Arthur Hayes<\/strong>, <strong>Benjamin Delo<\/strong> and <strong>Samuel Reed<\/strong>, who ran a crypto-trading exchange and pleaded guilty to ignoring federal anti-money-laundering rules. They were pardoned in March 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Changpeng &#8220;CZ&#8221; Zhao<\/strong>, the founder of the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange Binance, admitted his company failed to guard against money laundering. His October 2025 pardon drew the fiercest backlash of any of the crypto pardons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beyond crypto, recipients span corporate and political fraud: <strong>Trevor Milton<\/strong>, founder of electric-truck startup Nikola, convicted of misleading investors about his company&#8217;s technology; <strong>Carlos Watson<\/strong>, head of the collapsed media startup Ozy, whose fraud sentence was shortened; <strong>Todd and Julie Chrisley<\/strong>, reality TV stars imprisoned for bank fraud and tax evasion. Last week, Trump issued a pardon to former Rep. <strong>Stephen Buyer<\/strong>, R-Ind., who had been serving nearly two years for insider trading.<\/p>\n<h2>big number<\/h2>\n<p>$10 billion. That\u2019s how much prosecutors estimated FTX defrauded investors of. The operation is among the largest such cases in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=444\">Prices Suddenly Drop 50% For Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 3 In New York<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>key background<\/h2>\n<p>Bankman-Fried filed through the normal government channel for pardon requests\u2014a Justice Department office that processes thousands of applications a year and recommends which ones the president should consider. But Trump has often skipped that process entirely in his second term, granting pardons directly to people who get his attention. To vie for his case, Bankman-Fried has pointed out that the same judge, Lewis Kaplan, oversaw both his fraud trial and a defamation case Trump lost\u2014an attempt to cast the two of them as targets of the same court. \u201cHe used the same playbook on @realDonaldTrump,\u201d Bankman-Fried <u>posted<\/u> on X in February. Trump, for his part, has framed his crypto pardons as fulfilling a 2024 campaign promise to end what he called a government &#8220;war on crypto,&#8221; and his administration has sharply cut back the agencies that police financial and crypto crime.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>tangent<\/h2>\n<p>Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes\u2014convicted of deceiving investors about a blood-testing device that didn\u2019t work\u2014asked for clemency in 2025 but has yet to receive it. She was sentenced to 11 years in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=442\">A Canadian Teacher Pension Fund Could Score A $11 Billion Windfall From SpaceX IPO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTX founder is betting on a Trump clemency spree that&#8217;s already freed crypto&#8217;s biggest names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sam Bankman-Fried\u2014Serving 25 Years For Fraud\u2014Formally Applies For Trump Pardon - Coast to Coast Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=448\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sam Bankman-Fried\u2014Serving 25 Years For Fraud\u2014Formally Applies For Trump Pardon - 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