SBF’s Political Fixer Salame Stands Defiant on His Way to Prison

Ryan Salame, one of Sam Bankman-Fried’s top lieutenants at FTX, is running out of road as the start of his jail term looms for crimes committed while working at the fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange.

Salame is due to report to a federal correctional institution in Cumberland, Maryland, on Friday to begin a sentence of 7 1/2 years for campaign-finance law violations that the judge in the case, Lewis A. Kaplan, labeled “astonishing.”

Ryan Salame.

Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg

But as he counts down his remaining hours of freedom, the 31-year-old exudes a sense of vexation at supposedly harsh treatment rather ...