The convicted FTX fraudster serving a 25-year prison sentence now has a formal filing for the presidential pardon he’s been openly seeking, plus a new jailhouse phone interview with Fox Business. He presumably hopes that was seen inside the White House, despite Donald Trump’s comments in January that he had no plan to pardon SBF. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/office-of-pardon-attorney.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

The FTX founder is betting on a Trump clemency spree that's already freed crypto's biggest names.

And he might just get one, even after running a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme.

The FTX co-founder is serving a 25-year sentence, doled out in 2024.

Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted in the FTX cryptocurrency empire collapse, has formally applied for a presidential pardon. He submitted his application to the Justice Department…