Alameda Boss Caroline Ellison Reports to Federal Prison for Role in FTX Scandal

Caroline Ellison, former chief executive of Alameda Research and a pivotal witness in the case against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has reported to a low-security federal prison in Connecticut following her two-year sentence, according to a CNBC report. Reporter MacKenzie Sigalos and Dawn Giel wrote that Ellison, who cooperated extensively with federal prosecutors, was instrumental in revealing details of the extensive financial misconduct that led to FTX’s dramatic $32 billion collapse. She admitted to helping misappropriate billions in FTX customer funds to sustain Alameda’s trading activities. Sigalos and Giel report that the sentence also requires Ellison to forfeit $11 billion, emphasizing the severity of the fraud labeled by Judge Lewis Kaplan as one of the most significant in U.S. history. Despite her remorseful courtroom statements, which included a letter of apology for her actions, Kaplan emphasized the necessity of her imprisonment to deter future financial crimes.