Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), former CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, took a supportive stance in his first interview after being imprisoned, in which SBF claimed he was also “politics of the Ministry of Justice” "The victim of "the Republican cause he supports more than people know. According to an interview with SBF by The New York Sun reporter, SBF provided $40 million to the U.S. Democrats in 2020 and $5.2 million to the Biden camp. He is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, on multiple charges including fraud. Civil groups in the United States have previously reported that the possibility of SBF being pardoned is small, although he appears to be fighting for pardons from the current U.S. president.