Sam-Bankman Fried again argues that he is innocent.
The former FTX boss published a lengthy document on
Charging…
The document is replete with tables showing hypothetical “market valuation” gains on assets FTX once held, from Solana to Anthropic, implying the company would be worth more than $100 billion today if not for the lawyers.
However, many of the document’s central assertions, such as the claim that FTX “was never insolvent” and could have paid clients in full, are inconsistent with the financial statements.
The post is the latest salvo in Bankman-Fried’s broader campaign to reframe her conviction and win political sympathy. As The New York Times reported, his parents and legal allies have been quietly pushing for a presidential pardon, recruiting Trump-connected lawyer Kory Langhofer and even arranging a jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson.
Traders in the Kalshi prediction market give him only about a 10% chance of receiving a pardon from Trump, suggesting that the post may be aimed at both changing those odds through a rehabilitation of his image and rewriting FTX’s history.
