Sam Bankman-Fried cozies up to Trump and Elon Musk

Sam Bankman-Fried cozies up to Trump and Elon Musk as FTX cofounder reportedly looks for pardon: ‘I don’t think anyone was guilty’
In interviews with the New York Sun, the former crypto billionaire criticized the judge who presided over his trial as well as a case against Donald Trump.
Sam Bankman-Fried Insists 'FTX Never Went Bankrupt,' Market Just Panicked
Sam Bankman-Fried gave his first interview since being sentenced to 25 years for fraud. The disgraced FTX founder claimed the exchange’s collapse was politically motivated.
Sam Bankman-Fried Conducts First Prison Interview, Discusses FTX Repayments
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried conducted his first prison interview, seeking a presidential pardon from Trump while maintaining FTX's solvency and criticizing the Biden administration, as the exchange begins repaying customers at 2022 cryptocurrency prices.
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Shares Common Enemies With Trump, Slams Biden For 'Political Censorship'
In his first prison interview, Sam Bankman-Fried said his conviction was among the cases of "prosecutorial overreach" as implemented by the Biden administration.
Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Trump pardon as crypto leaders push for clemency
Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, is positioning himself as a potential beneficiary of Donald Trump’s presidential clemency powers. Following Trump’s high-profile pardon of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht in January 2025,
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Live Updates: FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud
In all likelihood, he says, “there will be another Sam Bankman-Fried.” FTX customers ... which banked on the crypto industry—with FTX and its employees' lavish pastimes at the center ...
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FTX: DOJ Seeks to Ban Bankman-Fried From Using Signal, Slack to Contact Employees
The Justice Department wants to ban Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of bankrupt FTX, from speaking to former employees of the crypto exchange. The founder and former CEO of bankrupt ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried speaks out on politics and appeal in interview from prison
The founder of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has spoken out about politics in his first interview ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX employed a 'company therapist' who looked for 'dating options' for staff, report says.
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX employed a "company therapist ... We had both, male and female employees." FTX and Lerner did not immediately respond when Insider reached out for comment.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are embroiled in the crypto exchange's troubles. Here's what we know about the Stanford Law professors.
FTX has sued Sam Bankman-Fried's parents, seeking to recover millions ... Street Journal in December that Bankman was a paid FTX employee for 11 months, during which he worked on ...
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FTX On The Brink As It Halts Client Onboarding After Binance Scraps Rescue
"I'm deeply sorry that we got into this place, and for my role in it," Sam Bankman-Fried to FTX employees. "That's on me, and me alone, and it sucks, and I'm sorry." FTX, the crypto ...
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Private Jets, Political Cash Among $1B in Sam Bankman-Fried's Forfeited Assets: Court
A federal court has outlined just how extensive Sam Bankman-Fried's assets were before the young CEO of FTX was tried and imprisoned for fraud, and the government swooped in to seize roughly ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer says sentencing the FTX founder to a 100-year prison term would be 'grotesque' and 'barbaric'
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer thinks that the probation office has gone too far with the punishment they want to mete out to his client. "The PSR recommends that the Court sentence Sam to 100 ...