Ex-FTX Exec Ryan Salame Jokes About Starting New Role as Inmate at FCI Cumberland

Ex-FTX Exec Ryan Salame Starts Prison Sentence at Medium Security Maryland Facility

According to records, former FTX executive Ryan Salame has started serving his seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence at a prison in Maryland. The penal facility is a medium security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp. Based on its website, it has more than a thousand prisoners. Salame appeared to be making light of his circumstances in a post he uploaded on LinkedIn on Thursday.

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Inmate at FCI Cumberland,

Salame

In September, Salame entered a guilty plea to conspiring to transmit money through an unauthorized business and to make illegal political contributions. Alongside him was Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX. Following a criminal fraud trial in late 2018, Bankman-Fried was sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison in March.

Ryan Salame’s Request for Postponed Sentence Denied After Dog Bite Injury

In an attempt to secure medical attention for Salame following his summertime dog bite injury, Salame’s attorneys requested on Wednesday, Dec. 7, that he begin serving his prison sentence at that date. Salame sought the court to move his prison sentence from August to October in order to undergo emergency surgery after the dog incident, and the court granted his request.

In a prior petition, Salame’s attorneys claimed that following a dog bite to his face, he attended a doctor on July 3 and was assessed. Salame requested a hearing, but U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected his request on Friday. Citing an interview Salame conducted with conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson, Kaplan stated that it appeared Salame had sufficiently healed.

He recently participated in a videotaped interview with Tucker Carlon, during which he similarly appears physically recovered and entirely unimpaired while answering questions,

Kaplan

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