UPDATE: The SECgov and CFTC have also announced charges against former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang, just after SDNYnews' Damian Williams announced the two had settled charges. thesamreynolds nikhileshde report
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang pleaded guilty to charges tied to FTX's collapse, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Wednesday night.Commodity Futures Trading Commission also announced charges against the two, saying Ellison manipulated the price of FTT,The two are cooperating with investigators, Williams announced. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York did not specify what the two were being charged with.
"By surreptitiously siphoning FTX’s customer funds onto the books of Alameda, defendants hid the very real risks that FTX’s investors and customers faced,” Wadhwa said. Shortly after, Ellison retained the law firm WilmerHale to represent herself. WilmerHale counts Stephanie Avakian, a former director of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement, as one of its top attorneys.
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