“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.” - Abraham Lincoln
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, the most notorious criminal of the crypto age, gave an unauthorized jailhouse interview to Tucker Carlson on Thursday, stumping for a presidential pardon.
Never mind the millions Bankman-Fried lavished on Democrats.
Among President Donald Trump’s first acts was pardoning Ross Ulbricht who ran Silk Road. The website was once called “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet” – a place where you could buy anything from illicit drugs to murderers for hire. So what’s a few billion in misappropriated money by a furry-headed crypto klepto?
Bankman-Fried, 33, received a 25-year prison sentence and a court order to forfeit $11 billion last year following his 2023 conviction on seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.
The convict spoke to Carlson from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he’s been hanging out with Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. (SBF describes Diddy as “kind.”)
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