• Bankmanfried expressed sympathy for a authorities official who misplaced his job
• His mother and father work to get him a presidential pardon from Donald Trump
• Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail final March for his involvement within the collapse of FTX

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried posted his first put up on social media for the primary time in two years, saying, “Firing individuals is likely one of the hardest issues on this planet.”

In a sequence of posts about X, the banker’s fishing expressed sympathy for a authorities official who misplaced his job. His feedback come when President Donald Trump’s administration was fired or workers have been left off.

Bankmanfried mentioned:

“I’ve a whole lot of sympathy for presidency staff. I’ve not checked emails from the previous few days both. And being unemployed means I am far much less relaxed than I appear to look. You possibly can verify that.”

Bankmanfried, who was sentenced to 25 years in jail for his involvement within the collapse of FTX final March, mentioned dismissal was one of the troublesome issues on this planet. In his expertise it’s not often the worker’s fault that they have been fired, however it’s typically one of the best path to take.

“We’ll inform everybody we let go of. It is ours that we do not have the precise position for them or that we do not have the precise particular person to handle them or the precise work surroundings for them. It was due to it,” he mentioned.

4) I’ll inform this to everybody we let go of this: not having the precise position for them, or having the precise particular person to handle them, or having the precise work surroundings for them It was our fault that we did not.

– sbf (@sbf_ftx) February 25, 2025

I am looking for a presidential pardon

Bankmanfried’s put up comes as mother and father are attempting to offer their son a presidential pardon from Trump.

It was reported in January that Stanford College professor Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried had met with legal professionals and members of the Trump administration. The pair wish to obtain generosity for the banker’s fried.

A number of days after Trump entered the White Home with Silk Highway creator Ross Ulbricht (who served in jail for 12 years), Bankmanfried’s mother and father hope for related success.

Bankman-Fried beforehand referred to as his sentence “Draconian” regardless of FTX clients recovering many of the cash. It was reported in December that crypto exchanges would start repayments to clients in early January.

FTX co-founder Gary Wang prevented Decide Lewis Kaplan ruling in November that he was given time. Former FTX government Nishad Singh additionally prevented jail sentence.

Nevertheless, Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Analysis, (FTX’s sister firm), was sentenced to 24 months in September.