On March 29, Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money on CNBC and an avid finance commentator, thought out loud on X saying, "Is SBF the next to see daylight?"
The crypto community on Polymarket , a crypto-based prediction market where voters can bet on real-life incidents that might occur in the future, is torn among contestants.
The event titled "Who Will Trump Pardon in the First 100 Days?" SBF has only a 4% possibility of being pardoned.
Another crypto mogul who claims to be the first investor in Bitcoin, Roger Ver, has 5% votes. Ver, charged for evading $50M in taxes , said he was " targeted politically for spreading cryptocurrency" on March 2.
Interestingly, CZ or Changpeng Zhao , Binance's co-founder who formerly served as CEO, has around 9% of the votes on Polymarket as of the time of writing.
In April 2024, CZ was sentenced to four months imprisonment after confessing to money laundering crimes.
One of the main accusations against CZ was breaching firms to implement a proper anti-money laundering program, enabling Binance to process transactions that included proceeds of unlawful activity. The co-founder and former CEO of Binance had about 9% of the votes at the time of writing.
President Donald Trump granted clemency to three co-founders of BitMEX, a global crypto exchange, on March 27. The co-founders — former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes , Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed — pleaded guilty to a single count of breaching the Bank Secrecy Act more than three months ago.
The charges stated that they neglected to create anti-money laundering and know-your-customer frameworks and let their business run without any oversight.
The President also pardoned Ross Ulbricht on January 21, a day after Donald Trump took office as the 47th President of the United States. Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI and had his laptop seized on October 1, 2013.
Soon after, a judge sentenced him to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking, computer hacking, and money laundering on the dark web platform The Silk Road.
