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Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, commenced her two-year prison term on Thursday due to her involvement in the FTX collapse, as disclosed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons this week.
Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison Faces Consequences
The federal agency indicated that Ellison has begun her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution located in Danbury, Connecticut.
During her sentencing in September, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan additionally mandated that the former partner of disgraced crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried undergo three years of supervised release following her prison term.
Nonetheless, Kaplan commended the small-statured former crypto executive for her honesty as a witness, stating he had “never seen” a witness quite like Ellison.
Moreover, Ellison has been instructed to forfeit $11 billion for her role in the extensive crypto scheme that resulted in approximately $8 billion of FTX investor funds being siphoned from the platform.
Ellison entered a guilty plea to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, securities fraud, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and wire fraud in December 2022.
In total, Ellison was facing a potential 110 years in prison; however, her cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors resulted in a more lenient sentence compared to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years.
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Ellison’s two-year imprisonment has drawn attention from certain individuals within the crypto community, particularly former FTX Digital Markets CEO Ryan Salame.
Salame, who is currently serving a one-year sentence for breaching campaign finance regulations and running an unlicensed money-transmitting business, openly criticized Ellison’s sentencing prior to beginning his own prison term at a federal correctional facility in Maryland last month.
“I’m currently 5 pages deep of writing on analyzing Caroline’s testimony and writing on things I know Caroline lied about or misrepresented on the stand and I’m wondering the best way to share it,” he mentioned in a recent post on X.
SBF: “your assets are safe”. Truth: they’re not. result: SBF gets 25 years in prison.
Multiple Lawyers: “this activity is legal, you don’t need licenses, you should borrow against assets instead of liquidating them”. People who listen to their lawyers like they’re supposed to:…— Ryan Salame (@rsalame7926) September 25, 2024
“My mistake, (I) should have stolen everyone’s money so I could go to jail for substantially less time,” he added in another post on the platform led by Elon Musk.
Meanwhile, Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at FTX, received a sentence of time served along with three years of supervised release last month, making him the fourth executive of the failed crypto venture to be sentenced.
Gary Wang, co-founder and CTO of FTX, is scheduled to be sentenced on November 20.
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