Sam Bankman-Fried’s latest move has been in the making since the moment FTX, his crypto exchange, collapsed in 2022. As prosecutors began to build a case that would culminate in Bankman-Fried’s convictions on seven fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges, the disgraced boy king of crypto jotted down 19 ideas to rehabilitate his reputation.

The new report from the New York Times seems to confirm what anyone with a little bit of common sense assumed when Carlson’s interview dropped: SBF, who’s currently serving a 25-year sentence for fraud after his crypto company FTX collapsed in 2022, is angling for a pardon from President Trump.

Sam Bankman-Fried flips the script, blaming Democrats for his downfall. Now, he’s eyeing a Trump pardon — while sharing a cell block with Diddy.

Sam Bankman-Fried jumped on a videoconference call for an interview with Tucker Carlson from a New York state prison, where the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul is serving a 25-year sentence and says he's made some friends - including cellblock mate Sean "Diddy" Combs.

He’s been kind to me,” Bankman-Fried said of his new friend. “If someone told me three years ago that, Oh, you’d be hanging out with Diddy every day, I’d be like, That’s interesting; I wonder how that’s going to happen,