Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of convicted crypto swindler Sam Bankman-Fried, urged a federal judge not to send her to prison her role in the theft of $8 billion from customers of bankrupt FTX exchange.
In a court filing just before midnight on Tuesday, Ellison's lawyers told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan that the former executive at FTX sister firm Alameda Research deserves leniency for helping prosecutors build a successful criminal case against Bankman-Fried.
"From her first meeting with prosecutors, Caroline unflinchingly acknowledged her own wrongdoing," her lawyer Anjan Sahni wrote. "She time and again proved herself an enormously credible and important cooperating witness."
Sam is also getting fatter in jail
Bankman-Fried, 32, is serving a 25-year prison sentence after his conviction last year in what prosecutors described as one of the biggest financial frauds in US history. He is appealing the verdict and sentence.
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