Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

Trump has pardoned hundreds of people during his second term. While a majority of those were people who participated in the January 6 riot, many were convicted of financial fraud. An NBC News analysis from January found that more than half of the individual pardons granted were to people who committed white-collar crimes like money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud.

Trump has pardoned a number of people who have donated large sums to his political campaigns. Very few of those he has pardoned filed the official application with the Justice Department, according to Bloomberg.