Ex-FTX exec who helped finance lover's congress run in NY updates LinkedIn job to ‘inmate'

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The ex-FTX executive who helped Michelle Bond, a former NY congress candidate, illegally fund her campaign was ordered to surrender to prison on Friday.

Ryan Salame, who turned on FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and helped Michelle Bond illegally fund her campaign, was ordered to surrender to prison on FridayA white-collar criminal appears to be having a laugh about his 7.5 years prison sentence, and he's letting everyone know about it on LinkedIn.

"Michelle Bond and her co-conspirator romantic partner attempted to fund her campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives by illegally using hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporate coffers, among other sources, and then lying to Congress and others to cover it all up," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said.Williams accused them of orchestrating"a sham consulting agreement" between Bond and FTX, in which the failed crypto exchange paid her $400,000.

 

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