The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/04/convicted-crypto-fraudster-sam-bankman-fried-appealing-conviction-wants-retrial-or-trump-pardon/Notorious cryptocurrency huckster Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a new trial on all the fraud counts that netted him a 25-year prison sentence, while his parents are angling to get Trump to give their rich-kid son a pardon. Hillsborough native Sam Bankman-Fried became the face of cryptocurrency fraud in late 2022 when his crypto platform FTX collapsed financially, and he was arrested on fraud and money laundering charges. The CEO and founder known by his initials SBF was found guilty on seven counts of fraud for “disappearing” about $10 billion in customer funds into the company’s separate hedge funds to blow on real estate a

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