{"id":611281,"date":"2026-06-08T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=821286"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:24:48","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-files-formal-trump-pardon-request-as-ftt-jumps-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/sam-bankman-fried-files-formal-trump-pardon-request-as-ftt-jumps-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried Files Formal Trump Pardon Request as FTT Jumps 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sam-bankman-fried-files-formal-trump-pardon-request-as-ftt-jumps-50_nwmk-768x433.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sam Bankman-Fried at the courthouse in NY.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted FTX co-founder serving a 25-year federal prison sentence, formally submitted a presidential pardon application to the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney on June 8, 2026. Breaking: Formal Petition Confirmed Bloomberg first reported the filing on Monday morning. The application is now visible on the DOJ\u2019s public clemency [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted FTX co-founder serving a 25-year federal prison sentence, formally submitted a presidential pardon application to the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney on June 8, 2026. Breaking: Formal Petition Confirmed Bloomberg first reported the filing on Monday morning. The application is now visible on the DOJ\u2019s public clemency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}