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"They Wanted To Protect SBF" - The $100M Democrat Payoff That Protected SBF & DESTROYED CZ

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

CZ lays out the timeline from his November 2023 arrival in the US, guilty plea and four month prison sentence in 2024 to Donald Trump’s full and unconditional presidential pardon in October 2025, saying the pardon clears his felony record and restores his ability to be deemed “fit and proper” by regulators.

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0:00.0

To get the context of dates right.

0:01.6

So when do you go away?

0:03.6

When do you get the pardon?

0:05.4

So I arrived in U.S. November 21st, 2023.

0:11.4

And then I was supposed to be sentenced going through the court.

0:15.0

I was sentenced on April 30th, 2024.

0:18.6

I went to, I think, I self-surrender to prison on May 20, 24. I went to, I think I self-surrender to prison on May 20, May 30th,

0:24.1

2024. I got out of prison on September 27th, 2024, so it's four months there. And then I

0:32.8

think in October 21st, 2025, I got the presidential pardon. So, yeah. So a year later. A year later. But what is the big deal about getting a pardon, though, year later? Like, what does it do? What benefit that you're not a U.S. citizen? You don't live here. Who cares about getting a pardon? Why was that such a big deal? It's a big deal. Without a pardon, I'm labeled as a felon. So I have a criminal

0:55.4

record. And then, especially in my industry where we deal with finances, we have to get financial

1:00.9

licenses. My ability to, what they call the fit and proper as a UBO, ultimate beneficiary owner,

1:07.7

is significantly impacted. That means I cannot be a shareholder of many of our

1:12.8

businesses, or we will limit our ability to get licenses. This is not just in the U.S. This is global,

1:19.4

and in the U.S. even more. After the pardon, this goes away. It's a full, unconditional pardon.

1:27.2

And yeah, so the pardon is the big deal.

1:30.8

With a partner, I don't get, we don't get the fines back, but that's still, it's a big deal that

1:35.5

we get our name cleared. Got it. So it helps you out for licensing and the way U.S.

1:42.3

qualifies you, the rest of the world will pay attention to it.

1:44.8

So it kind of opens the market up for you

1:46.5

that if you choose to get back into business, you can.

1:49.0

Yes, yes.

1:50.5

Okay.

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