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Trump says Sam Bankman-Fried will not receive a pardon
President Donald Trump said he is not considering a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried, according to an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday. Trump commented while discussing a separate pardon request from music executive Sean Combs, whose letter seeking clemency the president said he had received but did not plan to grant. When asked about other high-profile figures, Trump said he had no intention of pardoning Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 on multiple fraud charges tied to the collapse of FTX, once one of the largest crypto trading platforms in the world. Prosecutors said he stole ... (full story)
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