Ryan Salame 因参与 FTX 崩溃而被判处 7 年以上监禁

30 岁的 Salame 在 FTX 成立的大部分时间里担任该交易所的高级管理人员，并且在 FTX 倒闭之前一直担任 FTX Digital Markets 的联合首席执行官。

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 周二被联邦法官判处七年以上监禁，这使他成为失败的加密货币大亨 Sam Bankman-Fried 的核心圈子中第一个因在 2022 年加密货币崩溃中所扮演的角色而入狱的人交换。

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 岁的 Salame 在 FTX 成立的大部分时间里担任该交易所的高级管理人员，并且在 FTX 倒闭之前一直担任 FTX Digital Markets 的联合首席执行官。他去年承认非法向美国竞选捐款以及经营无证汇款业务。

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 年监禁，加上三年监管释放，比检察官要求刘易斯·A·卡普兰法官在量刑前备忘录中对萨拉姆判处的五到七年还要长。

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.

虽然萨拉姆是 FTX 的高级管理人员，但他并不是今年早些时候政府针对班克曼-弗里德的审判案件的主要参与者，也没有出庭指控他。为了争取宽大处理，萨拉姆在量刑听证会上表示，他进行了合作，甚至提供了帮助检察官对班克曼-弗里德进行盘问以及对他本人进行起诉的文件。

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.

除了帮助 Bankman-Fried 掩盖 FTX 资产负债表中最终导致交易所倒闭的漏洞外，Salame 还被用作 Bankman-Fried 提供非法竞选捐款的渠道，以帮助制定美国的加密货币政策。从表面上看，班克曼-弗里德主要为民主党和自由主义事业提供政治捐款，而萨拉姆则为共和党和右倾事业提供政治捐款。

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

但最终萨拉姆用于这些捐款的资金来自班克曼·弗里德。

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

卡普兰说萨拉姆“确切地知道他在做什么……整个想法就是向世界隐瞒它。惊人！”

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

法官还严厉批评了 Salame，因为她因 FTX 倒闭而从 FTX 撤回了 500 万美元的加密货币。

“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.”

“你试图再提取数千万美元，”卡普兰说。 “是我先来的。我先上救生艇。让那些顾客见鬼去吧。”

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 客户及其家人道歉，称他和其他人的意图是好的，但他补充道：“我完全理解我寻求实现这些目标的手段是非法的。”

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

在被判刑之前，萨拉姆发表了简短的讲话，称他“正在开始我的救赎之路”。

“I accept what’s next,” he said.

“我接受接下来的事情，”他说。

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 的另外三名高层管理人员正在等待对其在交易所倒闭中所扮演角色的判决：FTX 对冲基金 Alameda Research 首席执行官卡罗琳·埃里森 (Caroline Ellison)、FTX 联合创始人加里·王 (Gary Wang) 以及 FTX 业务主管尼沙德·辛格 (Nishad Singh)。工程。三人都与检察官合作，并在班克曼-弗里德的审判中作证，以换取可能的缓刑。

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

美联社驻纽约撰稿人拉里·纽迈斯特对此报道做出了贡献。