Ryan Salame 因參與 FTX 崩潰而被判處 7 年以上監禁

30 歲的 Salame 在 FTX 成立的大部分時間裡擔任該交易所的高級管理人員，並且在 FTX 倒閉之前一直擔任 FTX Digital Markets 的聯合執行長。

Former FTX executive Ryan Salame was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison by a federal judge, making him the first of the inner circle of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.

FTX 前高管Ryan Salame 於週二被聯邦法官判處七年以上監禁，這使他成為失敗的加密貨幣大亨Sam Bankman-Fried 的核心圈子中第一個因在2022 年加密貨幣崩潰中所扮演的角色而入獄的人交換。

Salame, 30, was a high-ranking executive at FTX for most of the exchange's existence and, up until its collapse, was the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets. He pleaded guilty last year to illegally making unlawful U.S. campaign contributions and to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.

30 歲的 Salame 在 FTX 成立的大部分時間裡擔任該交易所的高級管理人員，並且在 FTX 倒閉之前一直擔任 FTX Digital Markets 的聯合執行長。他去年承認非法向美國競選捐款以及經營無證匯款業務。

The sentence of 7 1/2 years in prison, plus three years of supervised release, was more than the five to seven years prosecutors had asked Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to impose on Salame in their pre-sentencing memo.

7 1/2 年監禁，加上三年監管釋放，比檢察官要求劉易斯·A·卡普蘭法官在量刑前備忘錄中對薩拉姆判處的五到七年還要長。

While Salame was a high-level executive at FTX, he was not a major part of the government's case against Bankman-Fried at his trial earlier this year and did not testify against him. In a bid for leniency, Salame said during the sentencing hearing that he cooperated and even provided documents that aided prosecutors in their cross examination of Bankman-Fried, as well as in his own prosecution.

雖然薩拉姆是 FTX 的高級管理人員，但他並不是今年早些時候政府針對班克曼-弗里德的審判案件的主要參與者，也沒有出庭指控他。為了爭取寬大處理，薩拉姆在量刑聽證會上表示，他進行了合作，甚至提供了幫助檢察官對班克曼-弗里德進行盤問以及對他本人進行起訴的文件。

Along with helping Bankman-Fried hide the holes in FTX's balance sheet that ultimately led to the exchange's failure, Salame was used as a conduit for Bankman-Fried to make illegal campaign contributions to help shape U.S. policy on cryptocurrencies. On the surface, Bankman-Fried mostly gave political contributions to Democrats and liberal-leaning causes, while Salame gave contributions to Republicans and right-leaning causes.

除了幫助 Bankman-Fried 掩蓋 FTX 資產負債表中最終導致交易所倒閉的漏洞外，Salame 還被用作 Bankman-Fried 提供非法競選捐款的管道，以幫助制定美國的加密貨幣政策。從表面上看，班克曼-弗里德主要為民主黨和自由主義事業提供政治捐款，而薩拉姆則為共和黨和右傾事業提供政治捐款。

But ultimately the funds that Salame used for those contributions came from Bankman-Fried.

但最終薩拉姆用於這些捐款的資金來自班克曼·弗里德。

Kaplan said Salame “knew precisely what he was doing … and the whole idea was to hide it from the world. Astonishing!”

卡普蘭說薩拉姆「確切地知道他在做什麼……整個想法就是向世界隱瞞它。驚人！

The judge also chastised Salame for pulling $5 million in cryptocurrencies out of FTX as the exchange was failing.

法官也嚴厲批評了 Salame，因為她因 FTX 倒閉而從 FTX 撤回了 500 萬美元的加密貨幣。

“You tried to withdraw tens of millions more,” Kaplan said. “It was me first. I’m getting in the lifeboat first. To heck with all those customers.”

「你試圖再提取數千萬美元，」卡普蘭說。 “是我先來的。我先上救生艇。讓那些顧客見鬼去吧。

Salame apologized to FTX customers and his family, saying that he and others had good intentions, though he added: “I fully understand that the means I sought to achieve these goals were illegal.”

Salame 向 FTX 客戶及其家人道歉，稱他和其他人的意圖是好的，但他補充道：“我完全理解我尋求實現這些目標的手段是非法的。”

Before he was sentenced, Salame gave brief remarks saying he was “beginning my path to redemption.”

在被判刑之前，薩拉姆發表了簡短的講話，稱他「正在開始我的救贖之路」。

“I accept what’s next,” he said.

「我接受接下來的事情，」他說。

Three other high-level executives at FTX are awaiting sentencing for their roles in the exchange's collapse: Caroline Ellison, who was CEO of the FTX hedge fund Alameda Research, Gary Wang, the co-founder of FTX, and Nishad Singh, FTX's head of engineering. All three cooperated with prosecutors and testified at trial against Bankman-Fried in exchange for potentially suspended prison sentences.

FTX 的另外三名高層管理人員正在等待對其在交易所倒閉中所扮演角色的判決：FTX 對沖基金Alameda Research 首席執行官卡羅琳·埃里森(Caroline Ellison)、FTX 聯合創始人加里·王(Gary Wang) 以及FTX 業務主管尼沙德辛格(Nishad Singh)。三人都與檢察官合作，並在班克曼-弗里德的審判中作證，以換取可能的緩刑。

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Associated Press writer Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.

美聯社駐紐約撰稿人拉里·紐邁斯特對此報道做出了貢獻。