SBF’s Ex-Girlfriend Will Carry the Shame of FTX ‘to Her Grave’

Caroline Ellison was the star witness in the US government’s fraud case against the onetime crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, helping prosecutors unearth crimes they didn’t know about at FTX.

Now the former Alameda Research chief executive officer is pointing to her “extraordinarily impactful” cooperation in one of the biggest financial crime investigations in US history to convince a judge to spare her from spending a single day in prison.

In a sentencing memo late Tuesday, Ellison’s lawyers provided the most in-depth description of their client’s meteoric rise at FTX’s sister hedge fund before Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire collapsed in 2022. ...