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Sean Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried are sitting in the same prison cell in Brooklyn

Sean Combs was placed in the same cell in a Brooklyn prison as convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. The New York Times reports. The two are not cellmates in the traditional sense, sharing the same small prison room; rather, they both sleep in a large dormitory-like room at the Metropolitan Detention Center with several other […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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FTX executive Caroline Ellison wrote a Bridgerton-style romance novel while awaiting her verdict

Caroline Ellison wrote a steamy Bridgerton-style romance novel while waiting to learn her fate for her involvement in the multi-billion dollar FTX crypto scam, her mother revealed. MIT-educated Ellison had a tumultuous on-off relationship with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and pondered experimenting with polyamory – until she famously turned witness and presented incriminating evidence against […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for crypto fraud

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former cryptocurrency manager Caroline Ellison was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for her role in the theft of $8 billion in customer funds from the now-bankrupt FTX exchange by her ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, with the judge praising her extensive cooperation with prosecutors. US District Judge […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Two years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried's ex Caroline Ellison

Caroline Ellison, the The ex-girlfriend of convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the fraud scheme that led to the collapse of FTX. Ellison had pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud and had been the prosecution's key witness in the trial against Bankman-Fried. Ellison […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024