{"id":59053,"date":"2026-01-09T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/trump-rules-out-pardon-for-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-nyt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:40:23","slug":"trump-rules-out-pardon-for-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/trump-rules-out-pardon-for-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rules Out Pardon for FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried: NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h4 color=\"#333\">In brief<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump has ruled out a pardon for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried<\/li>\n<li>Bankman-Fried was convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the misuse of billions in customer funds and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/li>\n<li>The decision contrasts with Trump\u2019s earlier clemency for other crypto-linked figures, including Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and executives tied to BitMEX and Binance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>President Donald Trump ruled out a pardon for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday, seemingly drawing a line between his crypto-friendly agenda and the industry\u2019s most infamous fraud case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/sean-combs-pardon.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\"><span>responding<\/span><\/a><span> to questioning from a <\/span><i><span>New York Times <\/span><\/i><span>reporter who also asked about pardon requests for several high-profile figures, including Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A jury convicted Bankman-Fried in November 2023 on multiple fraud and conspiracy counts tied to the misappropriation of billions in FTX customer funds. He was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/223554\/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-prison\" target=\"_blank\"><span>sentenced<\/span><\/a><span> in March 2024 to 25 years in prison and has since <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/249403\/presumed-guilty-sam-bankman-fried-files-appeal\" target=\"_blank\"><span>appealed<\/span><\/a><span> both his conviction and sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bankman-Fried\u2019s parents reportedly began exploring ways to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-30\/sam-bankman-fried-s-parents-explore-seeking-trump-pardon-for-son\" target=\"_blank\"><span>secure his pardon<\/span><\/a><span>, roughly nine months later in January of last year, through several meetings with lawyers and others considered to have the President&#8217;s ear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That same month, Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/302197\/trump-pardons-former-silk-road-founder-and-bitcoin-icon-ross-ulbricht\" target=\"_blank\"><span>pardoned<\/span><\/a><span> Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road darknet marketplace, who had been serving a life sentence since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump exercised his presidential powers to provide clemency for other notable crypto industry figures on multiple occasions in 2025, including BitMEX\u2019s co-founders and Binance founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/347140\/trump-downplays-knowledge-binance-chief-pardon-familys-crypto\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Zhao\u2019s pardon<\/span><\/a><span>, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told <\/span><i><span>Decrypt<\/span><\/i><span> in November that the president \u201cexercised his constitutional authority,\u201d saying that Zhao \u201cwas prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump also told <\/span><i><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i><span> in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-family-foreign-business-deals.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>interview<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday that he sees no issue with his family\u2019s expanding business interests while he is in office, including in the crypto industry, arguing that earlier efforts to limit their activities earned him \u201cno credit\u201d for doing so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The president said his administration\u2019s support for crypto is driven by both political and strategic considerations, saying he \u201cgot a lot of votes\u201d for backing the industry and framing it as a contest with China for global leadership while dismissing concerns that regulatory rollbacks benefiting crypto firms could present conflicts of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI got a lot of votes because I backed crypto, and I got to like it,\u201d Trump said in the interview. \u201cChina wanted it, and one of us was going to get it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Decrypt<\/span><\/i><span> has reached out to the White House press office for further comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Daily Debrief Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p>Start every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief President Trump has ruled out a pardon for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried Bankman-Fried was convicted on fraud [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tien-dien-tu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}