Former FTX Exec Ryan Salame Criticizes Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison For “Lying” After Sentencing
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Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has taken to X to criticize ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison for “lying” following her September 24 sentencing for her role in FTX’s collapse, new social media posts reveal.
Salame criticized Ellison, who received 24 months in federal prison as punishment after accepting a cooperation deal with the U.S. government, by seemingly accusing her of lying to get a more lenient sentence stemming from her criminal activity at the doomed crypto exchange.
Quick reminder that between SBF and Caroline, only one of them ever directly asked me to make a political contribution and it was Caroline…
“Snitch is one thing, completely fabricating stuff and lying about other stuff is next level brilliant,” the former FTX Digital Markets CEO said in a Tuesday X post.
Salame pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money business and conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions and defraud the Federal Election Commission this past May.
The former Sam Bankman-Fried associate refused to testify against the FTX founder in his landmark fraud trial last year, ultimately receiving a sentence of 7.5 years behind bars – much longer than Ellison’s.
“My mistake, (I) should have stolen everyone’s money so I could go to jail for substantially less time,” Salame said in an additional post. “For everyone saying I didn’t cooperate that’s patently wrong, I just didn’t lie during my proffers to save myself.”
The ex-girlfriend of Bankman-Fried testified for three days against the disgraced “crypto king” and was
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