Sam Bankman-Fried’s latest move has been in the making since the moment FTX, his crypto exchange, collapsed in 2022. As prosecutors began to build a case that would culminate in Bankman-Fried’s convictions on seven fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges, the disgraced boy king of crypto jotted down 19 ideas to rehabilitate his reputation.

FTX imploded and filed for bankruptcy in November 2022 amid accusations that Bankman-Fried mishandled the exchange’s funds by loaning out billions of dollars’ worth of customer deposits to Alameda Research, the firm’s trading arm.

He’s been kind to me,” Bankman-Fried said of his new friend. “If someone told me three years ago that, Oh, you’d be hanging out with Diddy every day, I’d be like, That’s interesting; I wonder how that’s going to happen,

Sam Bankman-Fried claims that if they had never filed for FTX bankruptcy, they could have had $93 billion in assets today and no collapse.

Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX, is making a last-ditch attempt to secure a pardon from former President Donald Trump.

Sam Bankman-Fried was the crypto king of Washington, D.C., establishing himself as a fundraising force after becoming one of the top donors to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. After a swift fall from grace,

Fried, the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been placed in solitary confinement at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention

The new report from the New York Times seems to confirm what anyone with a little bit of common sense assumed when Carlson’s interview dropped: SBF, who’s currently serving a 25-year sentence for fraud after his crypto company FTX collapsed in 2022, is angling for a pardon from President Trump.

Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.