Sam Bankman Fried filed an official request for a presidential pardon today

He is two years into a 25 year sentence for stealing 8 BILLION dollars from FTX customers
The earliest he would get out otherwise is October 2044
His parents, both Stanford law professors, have lobbied Trump connected lawyers since early 2025
The catch is Trump already said no in a January interview, grouping him with Maduro and Diddy
Pro crypto Republicans went even harder, saying he deserves nothing
So SBF has been working a softer angle, publicly praising Trump's other pardons online, including the ex president of Honduras who got 45 years for drug trafficking
His whole case for freedom is that FTX customers got their money back
Technically they did, between 100 and 120 percent of what they were owed but that only happened because the assets he left behind soared in value after the collapse, not because the money was ever really there
He didn't pay his victims back, the bull market did