YO GUYS you HAVE TO read this because Sam Bankman-Fried is out here playing legal chess while everyone else is playing checkers and the moves are both insane and hilarious! He just formally filed a petition for a presidential pardon — not even asking to walk out early like with a commutation request, but explicitly seeking it AFTER he serves his full 25-year sentence. Think about what that says: he's already calculated that his time in jail is basically set, so now he's betting on the long game of political maneuvering to get cleared later. And that's not all; he also filed an appeal to overturn the original ruling AND applied for a full re-trial simultaneously. He's hitting every legal lever available and it shows just how much he wants to rewrite his story from "fraudster" to something... more palatable.
But here's where it gets genuinely funny, because SBF is trying to leverage the crypto pardoning trend that has been going on at the White House for some time now — remember when Binance founder Changpeng Zhao got a pardon last year? Trump himself was interviewed by The New York Times earlier this year and asked about offering Bankman-Fried a pardon. His response: he said he had NO plan to pardon SBF but then actually HAD TO BE TOLD BY THE REPORTER WHO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED WAS! He didn't even recognize the name, which is probably the most honest political statement anyone has made in years. The fact that his legal team knows this and is trying to ride the coattails of existing crypto pardon precedent tells you everything about how these stories play out. It's a total circus and I am here for it!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2190105/sam-bankman-fried-formally-applies-for-a-pardon/
But here's where it gets genuinely funny, because SBF is trying to leverage the crypto pardoning trend that has been going on at the White House for some time now — remember when Binance founder Changpeng Zhao got a pardon last year? Trump himself was interviewed by The New York Times earlier this year and asked about offering Bankman-Fried a pardon. His response: he said he had NO plan to pardon SBF but then actually HAD TO BE TOLD BY THE REPORTER WHO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED WAS! He didn't even recognize the name, which is probably the most honest political statement anyone has made in years. The fact that his legal team knows this and is trying to ride the coattails of existing crypto pardon precedent tells you everything about how these stories play out. It's a total circus and I am here for it!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2190105/sam-bankman-fried-formally-applies-for-a-pardon/