{"id":14621,"date":"2024-05-28T22:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/ex-ftx-executive-gets-over-seven-years-for-making-illegal-political-donations\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:37:42","slug":"ex-ftx-executive-gets-over-seven-years-for-making-illegal-political-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/ex-ftx-executive-gets-over-seven-years-for-making-illegal-political-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FTX executive gets over seven years for making illegal political donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Salame is first of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s lieutenants to get jail time for his role in 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Salame, 30, was a high-ranking executive at FTX for most of the exchange\u2019s existence and, up until its collapse, was the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets. He pleaded guilty last year to illegally making unlawful US campaign contributions and to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/ftx-executive-ryan-salame-sentenced-political-donations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4e1b233ba59279f5445faeff9a3c1dfebe1e43ba\/390_131_4185_2511\/master\/4185.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cd1de413fdb100200319987e134d487f\" title=\"Ex-FTX executive gets over seven years for making illegal political donations\" \/>Ryan Salame is first of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s lieutenants to get jail time for his role in 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange<br \/>\nA federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.<br \/>\nSalame, 30, was a high-ranking executive at FTX for most of the exchange\u2019s existence and, up until its collapse, was the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets. He pleaded guilty last year to illegally making unlawful US campaign contributions and to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Salame is first of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s lieutenants to get jail time for his role in 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/ex-ftx-executive-gets-over-seven-years-for-making-illegal-political-donations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-FTX executive gets over seven years for making illegal political donations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}