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Ellison’s Prison Release Date Moved Up
The former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, has seen her prison release date moved forward by three weeks following her reporting to prison. The one-time girlfriend of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is currently incarcerated at the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut after she was sentenced to two years behind bars by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on September 24 for her role in the multi-billion dollar crypto scandal.
Records have shown that Ellison’s time in prison is set to conclude on July 20, 2026, which will be just one year and seven months from her start date. She has likely taken advantage of sentencing reduction during her time in the federal correction centre although this is unconfirmed. Ellison is not
Ellison is not the only former member of FTX / Alameda Research who has been put behind bars, with two recent sentencings of former associates of Bankman-Fried coming from criminal charges during their roles in the digital assets scheme. Ex-FTX chief technology officer Gary Wang and head of engineering Nishad Singh were both spared prison time when they were sentenced to time served and ordered pay a multi-billion dollar penalty for their part in the fraud scheme.
Wang, Singh and Ellison all testified against their former boss during Bankman-Fried’s landmark October 2023 trial. Ellison was considered to be the prosecution’s star witness. The FTX founder was sentenced to 25 years behind bars when he was found guilty on all counts last November. Former FTX Digital Markets CEO Ryan Salame is also serving time behind bars, spending seven years at a federal facility in Cumberland, Maryland after pleading guilty in May to violating campaign finance laws and operating an unlicensed money transmitter business. He did however refuse to testify against Bankman-Fried.
Posecutors alleged that Salame operated a straw donor scheme while leading the crypto exchange's Bahamian subsidiary. This was partially to benefit his partner, then Congressional hopeful Michelle Bond. Since then Bond has been indicted on a criminal charge herself from the incident, with Salame accusing U.S. prosecutors of falsely agreeing to not investigate the mother of his child should he plead guilty.
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