Former Co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, Ryan Salame, who simply bought sentenced to 90 months in jail for conspiracy to make illegal political contributions and defraud the Federal Election Fee, and conspiracy to function an unlicensed cash transmitting enterprise, has returned to X (previously Twitter) to plead his case to the general public — and it appears like he’s blaming anybody however himself.
Shortly after he was sentenced, Salame mentioned, “Hot damn, this is going to get interesting” and “Who should I do the first public interview with? Top vote wins.”
He then spent hours replying to trolls, influencers, and former FTX prospects, primarily suggesting that there was much more to the FTX/Alameda collapse than met the attention. He didn’t make clear how.
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Salame wants an interview
In line with a tweet from Brian Krogsgard, Salame has reached out to Krogsgard to see if he and Jordan Fish (the hosts of in style cryptocurrency podcast UpOnly) can be prepared to have him on for an interview earlier than he begins his jail sentence. It’s unclear in the event that they’ve accepted his request.
Whereas Salame has publicly acknowledged that he’s pled responsible, he’s additionally tried to downplay his information of the crimes that passed off at FTX and Alameda. Certainly, he’s tried responsible the trade’s attorneys for his jail sentence, stating, “Sucks that if I had just sold off my pile of crypto like I was going to instead of listening to multiple lawyers and borrowing from Alameda against it [sic] instead, I likely wouldn’t be going to prison for seven and half years.”
It isn’t apparent what Salame means right here, as his private pile of cryptocurrency didn’t result in his conviction. Relatively, it was the truth that he conspired with Bankman-Fried to function an unlicensed money-transmitting enterprise, and unlawfully used FTX, Alameda Analysis, and an entity known as North Dimension to transmit FTX buyer funds with out a license.
He additionally made false statements to US banks to keep up illegal companies and made marketing campaign contributions that he knew had been unlawful.
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