White House Shuts Down Talk Of Sam Bankman-Fried Pardon

Speculation that Sam Bankman-Fried could receive executive clemency ran into a hard stop Tuesday, after the White House reiterated it has no plans to pardon the former FTX chief. The clarification keeps one of crypto’s most politically charged “what if” scenarios firmly in the realm of rumor rather than policy. Bankman-Fried is serving a lengthy federal sentence following his conviction tied to the collapse of FTX, once among the world’s largest crypto exchanges. While clemency chatter flares up periodically in high-profile cases, the latest response from the administration suggests there is no active effort under way to revisit his

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