{"id":15725,"date":"2022-12-22T03:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/ftxs-gary-wang-and-alamedas-caroline-ellison-plead-guilty-to-fraud-duo-is-cooperating-with-feds-bitcoin-news\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T03:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:59:35","slug":"ftxs-gary-wang-and-alamedas-caroline-ellison-plead-guilty-to-fraud-duo-is-cooperating-with-feds-bitcoin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/ftxs-gary-wang-and-alamedas-caroline-ellison-plead-guilty-to-fraud-duo-is-cooperating-with-feds-bitcoin-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX’s Gary Wang and Alameda’s Caroline Ellison Plead Guilty to Fraud, Duo Is ‘Cooperating’ With Feds \u2013 Bitcoin News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Dec. 21, 2022, U.S. attorney Damian Williams announced that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Department of Justice (DOJ) filed charges against Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang. Williams declared that both Ellison and Wang have been cooperating with law enforcement officials. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also charged Wang and Ellison the same day, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) followed suit with charges. \u201cCaroline Ellison and Gary Wang acknowledge liability,\u201d the CFTC said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wang and Ellison Are Cooperating With Law Enforcement<\/h2>\n

U.S. attorney Damian Williams and the SDNY Department of Justice (DOJ) announced<\/a> that the government has filed fraud charges against FTX co-founder Gary Wang and Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth [Ellison and Wang] have pleaded guilty to [the] charges,\u201d Williams told the press. \u201cAnd they are both cooperating with the [SDNY]. Let me reiterate a call that I made last week. If you participated in misconduct at FTX or Alameda, now is the time to get ahead of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.S. attorney Damian Williams was the first to announce that Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang were both cooperating with law enforcement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Williams further added that \u201c[law enforcement] is moving quickly and our patience is not eternal.\u201d Williams also told the press that FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is now in custody with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). SBF is \u201con his way back to the United States,\u201d Williams stressed.<\/p>\n

The attorney noted that SBF will be transported to the SDNY district and appear before a judge \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d \u201cMany individuals in The Bahamas and the United States contributed to the swiftness of the defendant\u2019s return,\u201d Williams said. The U.S. attorney thanked The Bahamas for assisting in the investigation.<\/p>\n

SEC and CFTC Follow SDNY\u2019s Lead<\/h2>\n

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) also filed charges against Wang and Ellison on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEllison, at the direction of Bankman-Fried, furthered the scheme by manipulating the price of FTT, an FTX-issued exchange crypto security token, by purchasing large quantities on the open market to prop up its price,\u201d the SEC press statement<\/a> disclosed. \u201cFTT served as collateral for undisclosed loans by FTX of its customers\u2019 assets to Alameda, a crypto hedge fund owned by Wang and Bankman-Fried and run by Ellison.\u201d The SEC added:<\/p>\n

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Ellison and Wang are cooperating with the SEC\u2019s ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The CFTC\u2019s charges show that Wang added special features to FTX\u2019s code to bolster Alameda Research. \u201cAs alleged in the amended complaint, Wang created features in the code underlying the FTX trading platform that allowed Alameda to maintain an essentially unlimited line of credit on FTX,\u201d the CFTC said<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEllison and Wang do not contest their liability on the CFTC\u2019s claims,\u201d the CFTC added. \u201cBoth have agreed to the entry of consent orders of judgment as to their liability for engaging in fraud in violation of Section 6(c)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC Regulation 180.1.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What do you think about Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison cooperating with the Feds? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman <\/h6>\n

\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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