{"id":1783773,"date":"2022-12-22T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783773"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:11:54","slug":"sam-bankman-frieds-girlfriend-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sam-bankman-frieds-girlfriend-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s Girlfriend Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsam-bankman-frieds-girlfriend-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783773&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/original_Untitled_design83.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Two former top executives of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-disgraced-ftx-crypto-bro-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-criminal-charges-filed\">Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s<\/a> collapsed cryptocurrency exchange\u00a0FTX\u00a0have pleaded guilty to federal criminal fraud charges and are cooperating in the case against the disgraced former CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The US attorney for the Southern District of New York said on Wednesday night that Caroline Ellison, 28, who was the chief executive of the cryptocurrency trading company\u00a0Alameda Research and Bankman-Fried\u2019s girlfriend, as well as Gary Wang, 29, one of the founders of the FTX crypto exchange were key lieutenants in the former CEO\u2019s businesses, which relied primarily on FTX and Alameda, the companies that he founded and operated.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also filed civil fraud charges against Ellison and Wang on Wednesday. According to the agency, Ellison had used FTX customer deposits to fund Alameda\u2019s trading activity and Wang created software that enabled the diversion of funds to occur.<\/p>\n<p>The cooperation agreements and pleas will help in the criminal fraud case against <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-disgraced-crypto-bro-sam-bankman-fried-under-criminal-investigation-by-doj\">Bankman-Fried<\/a>, who is currently in US custody after\u00a0agreeing to be extradited\u00a0from the Bahamas earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>US attorney Damian Williams said Ellison and Wang were charged \u201cin connection with their roles in the fraud that contributed to FTX\u2019s collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams added, \u201cIf you participated in misconduct at FTX or Alameda, now is the time to get ahead of it. We are moving quickly and our patience is not eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal government alleges Bankman-Fried supervised a yearslong fraud that enabled him to become one of the most powerful people in the crypto industry who now faces decades of incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>According to federal prosecutors and US regulators, Bankman-Fried&#8217;s scheme\u00a0allegedly diverted billions in customer money for other uses, including <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/disgraced-crypto-bro-sam-bankman-fried-donated-5-2-million-to-bidens-2020-campaign\">making campaign donations mostly to Democrats<\/a>, trading crypto at Alameda, investing in other crypto companies, and buying real estate in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried defrauded customers, investors, and lenders before his crypto trading firm collapsed in bankruptcy in November.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2022-234\">SEC<\/a>, Ellison, under Bankman-Fried\u2019s direction, had manipulated the price of the cryptocurrency FTT, created by FTX, by buying large amounts to prop up its price. Alameda, one of the firms trading FTT, allegedly used the crypto token as collateral for loans from other large crypto firms to fund its trading.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy director of the SEC\u2019s Division of Enforcement Sanjay Wadhwa said Bankman-Fried, Ellison, and Wang \u201cwere active participants in a scheme to conceal material information from FTX investors, including through the efforts of Mr. Bankman-Fried and Ms. Ellison to artificially prop up the value of FTT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellison was not only one of the main figures in Mr. Bankman-Fried\u2019s companies but was his on-and-off girlfriend and the pair lived together in a five-bedroom penthouse in the Bahamas, where FTX was located. Wang lived in the same luxury complex.\u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2022\/11\/10\/bankman-frieds-cabal-of-roommates-in-the-bahamas-ran-his-crypto-empire-and-dated-other-employees-have-lots-of-questions\/\">Coindesk<\/a>, there have been rumors of polyamory relationships, including as many as 10 people, in the Bahamas among FTX executives.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried previously claimed he was innocent and that he wasn\u2019t fully aware of what was happening at Alameda. He is expected in a Manhattan Federal District Court as early as Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former top executives of\u00a0Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s collapsed cryptocurrency exchange\u00a0FTX\u00a0have pleaded guilty to federal criminal fraud charges and are cooperating in the case against the disgraced former CEO.The US attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s Girlfriend Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,8222,5458,4035,6909,11144,5806,8573,3819,6912],"class_list":["post-1783773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-bankman-frieds","tag-bongino","tag-charges","tag-fraud","tag-girlfriend","tag-guilty","tag-pleads","tag-report","tag-sam"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s Girlfriend Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}