Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame Drops Bid to Vacate Conviction (1)

Former FTX executive Ryan Salame abandoned a bid to withdraw his guilty plea over claims that prosecutors reneged on a deal not to charge his girlfriend in a campaign finance case.

The reversal comes days after Michelle Bond,Salame’s domestic partner and the mother of his child, was indicted by federal prosecutors in New York.

Salame, who is due to start serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence in October, last week asked US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to either block the impending indictment of Bond or vacate his guilty plea. Salame alleged he was lured into signing a plea ...