Ryan Salame, a former top lieutenant of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been sentenced to 90 months, or seven and a half years, in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Salame has also 已被命令支付 more than $6 million in forfeiture and more than $5 million in restitution.
刑期比检察官提出的五到七年更严重,
9月份 , Salame pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions, defraud the Federal Election Commission, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business.
Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried to 25年监禁 in March.
在2021年,萨拉梅从银行曼-弗里德的加密对冲基金阿拉梅达研究公司担任高级职位,转变为FTX巴哈马子公司FTX数字市场的联合首席执行官.萨拉梅在任职期间花费了数百万美元用于房地产和竞选捐赠.
巴哈马律师的一项估计 claims Bankman-Fried and Salame spent $256.3 million to buy and maintain 35 properties across New Providence — real estate that Bahamian regulators wanted to retrieve in FTX’s U.S. bankruptcy protection proceedings. Meanwhile, 联邦选举委员会数据显示 that Salame gave more than $24 million to Republican candidates and causes in the 2022 election cycle.
几天前,FTX在2022年申请破产 , Salame went to Bahamian authorities to tell them that the Bankman-Fried may have committed fraud by sending customer money from the crypto exchange to his other firm, Alameda Research. According to a criminal filing, Salame disclosed “possible mishandling of clients’ assets” by Bankman-Fried.
It was one of the first public acknowledgments of an insider turning on Bankman-Fried, who was 被判有罪 of stealing more than $8 billion worth of customer cash they believed was safely being stored on the exchange.
Since then, however, 其他一些内部人士 , including Alameda’s former CEO and SBF’s ex-girlfriend, 卡罗琳·埃利森 , 富达娱乐平台联合创始人加里王 , and FTX’s ex-engineering head 尼沙德辛格 , all gave testimony for the prosecution that ultimately contributed to his guilty verdict in November. Salame did not take the stand during Bankman-Fried’s trial.
美国律师戴米安·威廉姆斯在一份声明中说,
威廉姆斯补充说:”萨拉梅参与了两起严重的联邦犯罪,
萨拉梅是SBF执行团队中首位自2022年11月交易所申请破产以来被判处.
— 美国广播公司的丹·曼根也参与了这份报告.
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