Published On: Tue, Sep 24th, 2024

Caroline Ellison, former FTX exec and Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend, sentenced to 2 years in prison



Caroline Ellison, whose testimony helped convict her former boss and ex-boyfriend, disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for fraud and conspiracy.

Ellison was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to 24 months and ordered to forfeit $11 billion for her involvement in the collapse of Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange company, FTX. She had faced a maximum sentence of about 110 years.

Ellison, 29, accepted a…



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