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U.S. authorities had requested a judge impose a sentence of five to seven years on the former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO, but one ordered Ryan Salame to spend 90 months in prison.

Months after his guilty plea to prosecutors, former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame learned he would likely be spending more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two felony charges.

On May 28, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York considered sentencing recommendations from Salame’s legal team and prosecutors and ordered the former FTX executive to spend 90 months in prison. The judge’s decision reflected more time behind bars than even prosecutors recommended — up to seven years — and was considerably higher than what Salame’s lawyers requested: 18 months.

Taking to X for the first time since November 2022, Salame said the situation was “going to get interesting quickly” without directly referring to his sentencing and suggested he had no plans to flee the United States as “family [was] more important than anything.” A May 14 court filing stated that Salame had a child with his partner, Michelle Bond, in November 2023.

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