Sam Bankman-Fried, the imprisoned founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has filed a formal clemency petition with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, requesting a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump while serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy.

The application, now listed as pending in DOJ records, comes as Bankman-Fried pursues a simultaneous appeal of his conviction and sentence.

In a phone interview with FOX Business correspondent Susan Li — his first on-record media appearance from behind bars — Bankman-Fried made clear he wants Trump’s intervention. “I assume that you would want a pardon…

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