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Fortune
Fortune
Ben Weiss

Sam Bankman-Fried cozies up to Trump and Elon Musk as FTX cofounder reportedly looks for pardon: ‘I don’t think anyone was guilty’

Sam Bankman-Fried looks at the camera amid green bushes. (Credit: Erika P. Rodriguez—Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)

Another crypto convict is trying to curry favor from President Donald Trump.

Over a series of Bitcoin into mainstream relevance. Silk Road users paid in the cryptocurrency to buy illegal drugs, among other illicit products.

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