Maybe you apply to Trump's sons with a proposal as to how to enrich their crypto ventures?

> given the current administration, asking on Twitter might get you further!

Doesn't matter how you "apply", as long as the cash is received.

If it were that cheap Sean Combs would be a free man. They probably increase the expected bribe based on your perceived ability to pay.

that's it? seems low

He spent a lot of money on political donations. I don't think it was from the goodness of his heart.

Unlike CZ, who made Trump and his family hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars, SBF has absolutely nothing to offer Trump. He's broke and a complete outcast.

Ross Ulbricht became a cause celebre among libertarians, but SBF was always genuinely despised by pretty much everyone.

By finding a way to get at least $41 million to the other side

You can call Trump "America's Hitler" and end up the VP pick. All that matters is bending the knee.

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There's this notion from the Supreme Court case *Burdick v. United States (1915) that accepting a pardon is an implicit admission of guilt. Therefore, a person can refuse a pardon. There isn't anything in the decision to justify the argument that accepting the pardon is an admission of guilt, it's just stated as a fact. It seems at odds with situations where pardons have been used to correct miscarriages of justice in cases of factual innocence.

From what I recall last time I looked into it, sort of by current legal theory.

A pardon does not automatically require a confession (though it could be part of the terms), however blanket pardons remove the ability to plead the 5th on the topic if subpoenaed as a witness. The 5th precludes being forced to testify against yourself, but if the government has declared it not a crime then you can’t testify against yourself even if you wanted to.

From what I recall, non-global pardons still maintained some level of 5th Amendment protections. Ie you were pardoned for A, but talking about A might reveal you did B, so you could still potentially testify against yourself.

Iirc, non-global pardons usually come with a stipulation like “must testify that or about…” because of this.

No. Furthermore, they don't even need to name a specific crime, a person can be pardoned for "any crimes committed in this period" etc.

No; there have been a number of (controversial) pardons for people who were either not charged or had not been convicted. Gerald Ford set something of a precedent by pardoning Richard Nixon for activities related to the Watergate cover-up, and Joe Biden pre-emptively pardoned his whole family.

These applications of the pardon power have been controversial, but never successfully challenged.

No, but they'll take cash, check or bitcoin

Tammany hall blush at what half of HN think is perfectly acceptable.

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