Conservative activist Laura Loomer and crypto attorney John E. Deaton ignited a fresh wave of controversy around Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal fate, alleging a “massive and well funded” push to secure presidential clemency for the convicted FTX founder. Their claims arrive against the hard legal backdrop of Bankman-Fried’s 25-year federal sentence and an $11 billion forfeiture order—facts that sharply constrain the practical pathways for any pardon or commutation bid.

Lobby Efforts For Crypto’s Most Famous Felon

Loomer framed the matter as a sophisticated influence operation targeting “Trump world,” asserting that family members of Bankman-Fried are “actively working with a firm” to obtain a pardon. “There is a highly mobilized and well funded effort on the right to lobby Trump world to pard

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