I was really trying to avoid a political debacle here by making an attemptedly neutral comparisons between Biden and both Obama and Trump. You're right though,

I was really trying to avoid a political debacle here by making an attemptedly neutral comparisons between Biden and both Obama and Trump. You're right though, I was referencing the relevant OPA pages for each of the recent presidents ([1], [2], [3], [4]). As the wiki page you've linked notes: "however, Trump frequently bypassed the OPA, and the majority of his executive clemency grants were made to well-connected convicts who did not file a petition with the OPA or meet the OPA's requirements. [...] Of the pardons and commutations that Trump did grant, the vast majority were to persons to whom Trump had a personal or political connection, or persons for whom executive clemency served a political goal." And yeah, that kind of bears out the point that SBF could probably find better places to put his money. But just for fun I went through the OPA lists semi-manually: Biden hasn't pardoned much of anyone. Trump pardoned 5 people who are specifically described as having been convicted for securities-related matters, namely Chris Collins, Andrew Worden, Drew Brownstein, Greg Reyes, and Michael Milken to top it off. That's not including the other people (e.g. Paul Erikson) who were involved with related financial crimes, but whose descriptions don't specifically call out securities convictions, as well as others that weren't pardoned through the OPA like Shapiro and Stitsky. Given how rarely these sorts of crimes are convicted, I think that's appropriately described as "many". Obama pardoned two people for securities issues, Jimmy Mattison and Scoey Morris, but as both were convicted of counterfeiting (a vastly different kind of crime than SBF) I think we can ignore them. Robert Hobbs and Brian Sledz probably count here. I'm unable to find details about Robert Schindler to know for him. Bush Junior pardoned Richard Miller, plus a couple of embezzlers and counterfeiters. I might have missed some. Do you mind double-checking? [1] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-joseph-biden-2021-present https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-jos... [2] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021 https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-don... [3] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017 https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-bar... [4] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-george-w-bush-2001-2009 https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-geo...