Now, from behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Bankman-Fried is orchestrating an extraordinary public-relations blitz that looks very much like a campaign to make the most audacious trade of his career: support for President Trump’s agenda in return for a presidential pardon.

Sam Bankman-Fried was the crypto king of Washington, D.C., establishing himself as a fundraising force after becoming one of the top donors to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. After a swift fall from grace,

Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.

Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX, is making a last-ditch attempt to secure a pardon from former President Donald Trump.

Given how many pardons Trump has issued in the weeks since being back in power, those in Ghislaine's clique joked she should push for one.'