Samuel Bankman-Fried, the imprisoned former crypto executive and billionaire, has asked the Trump administration for a pardon.In 2024, Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison and $11 billion in forfeiture on a raft of fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange two years earlier.The crypto fraudster asked this year for a “Pardon after Completion of Sentence,” according to a Justice Department website, though it doesn’t specify on what date he filed for the reprieve.Prosecutors accused Bankman-Fried, known by his nickname SBF, of misappropriating billions of dollars of customer funds for personal use, political donations and repayment on billions of dollars in loans tied to a sister trading fund. The Justice Department called the scheme “one of the largest financial frauds in history.”In an interview with Fox Business earlier Monday, Bankman-Fried maintained the original prosecution was unjust and that his customers have been more than properly compensated for any losses.Cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried applied this year for a pardon from the Trump administration, according to newly unearthed Justice Department records (AFP/Getty)"I didn't steal user funds either," he said. "Customers have been repaid now 170 percent or so on their deposits. It's one of the very few cases where the platform was over-collateralized, where customers were more than made whole. And yet there was, you know, not just a criminal investigation, but a prosecution. And, you know, dozens of years of sentence[s]."In January, President Donald Trump told The New York Times he had no intention of pardoning Bankman-Fried.This is a breaking news story and will updated with new information.