USA v. BANKMAN-FRIED
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1:22-cr-00673
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September 24, 2024
Star Witness Against Bankman-Fried Gets 2 Years In FTX Case
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced former cryptocurrency executive Caroline Ellison to two years in prison Tuesday, crediting her decision to testify against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried but saying the $11.2 billion fraud was too big to warrant a "get out of jail free card."
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September 13, 2024
Bankman-Fried Lays Blame On Trial Judge In 2nd Circ. Appeal
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday launched an appeal of his fraud conviction over the cryptocurrency exchange's historic collapse, issuing a broadside against the judge who oversaw his trial and saying FTX's debtor counsel Sullivan & Cromwell LLP acted as an arm of the prosecution.
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September 11, 2024
Star Witness In Bankman-Fried Trial Seeks No Prison Time
Former FTX insider Caroline Ellison urged a Manhattan federal judge not to sentence her to prison for her part in the crypto exchange's massive fraud scheme, citing her remorse and the "devastating" trial testimony she gave against onetime romantic partner and company founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
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August 30, 2024
FTX Exec Drops Bid To Undo Plea Amid Partner's Indictment
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame is no longer seeking to vacate his guilty plea that he says Manhattan federal prosecutors induced with a false promise to halt a campaign finance probe into his partner Michelle Bond, though his claims that they broke their word will still be litigated before two different judges.
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August 22, 2024
FTX's Salame Says Feds Broke Deal Not To Probe Girlfriend
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to either vacate his May conviction or stop federal prosecutors from investigating his domestic partner Michelle Bond for related political campaign-finance offenses, saying prosecutors induced his guilty plea by promising not to probe Bond.
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July 30, 2024
FTX Exec Gets Prison Report Date Delayed After Dog Attack
A New York federal judge on Tuesday allowed ex-FTX executive Ryan Salame to delay his surrender date to begin his prison term from August to October, as he was forced to undergo medical treatment and surgery after being mauled by a German shepherd while visiting a friend's house last month.
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July 26, 2024
FTX's Ryan Salame Asks To Delay Prison After Dog Attack
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame on Friday asked a New York federal judge to delay his prison surrender date because he was recently mauled by a German shepherd and must undergo "urgent and necessary medical treatment and surgery."
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July 09, 2024
2 Cooperators In Bankman-Fried Case To Be Sentenced In Fall
Two former FTX executives who pled guilty and testified for the government at the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's founder, will be sentenced this fall, a New York federal judge said Tuesday.
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June 17, 2024
FTX, Customers Lay Claim To SBF's $11B Forfeiture Tab
FTX told the New York federal court that hit the company's founder Sam Bankman-Fried with a 25-year prison sentence and an $11 billion forfeiture order that the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange has a right to those funds, while a group of its former clients asserted a similar claim for itself.
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June 03, 2024
WeWork Plan Approval, Crypto Update, Giuliani Creditor Fight
Office space provider WeWork's plan to wipe out $4 billion in debt and end its Chapter 11 case was approved, defunct crypto lending platform Genesis Global Holdco LLC expects to exit bankruptcy in July and the official committee of unsecured creditors in Rudy Giuliani's Chapter 11 has asked a New York bankruptcy judge to hand control of the Republican firebrand's estate to a trustee.