FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-prison-release-ftx-sam-bankman-fried-2025-12

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dhruv3006•3h ago

So you can always get away with fraud?

btilly•1h ago

She's still serving her sentence. Just not in prison.

As for why it is so short, that's her reward for helping them get SBF.

latchkey•1h ago

What's amazing is that they needed her help.

eightman•1h ago

There's a reason SBF was arrested and tried within a year while other complex financial fraud cases take years to get a conviction.

latchkey•1h ago

Dec 11, 2008: Madoff arrested; scheme revealed.

March 12, 2009: Madoff pleads guilty to 11 federal felonies.

June 29, 2009: Sentenced to 150 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $17.179 billion.

bdcravens•57m ago

In Madoff's case, he confessed to his sons. So again, this was a case of an insider having the goods, not the result of a speedy investigation.

eightman•53m ago

I mean yeah Madoff confessed and made the case open and shut.

SBF entered a Not Guilty plea but Ellison for all intents and purposes entered a Guilty plea on his behalf with her co-operation.

latchkey•42m ago

She also had no choice, as SBF was blaming her. The point being that they still didn't really need her help. It was obvious that he committed fraud, and there was plenty of proof of it.

bfg_9k•1h ago

I mean, the guy was constantly high on nootropics and they had no idea what actual investments FTX made. I'd imagine most of the time was just spent untangling that web, his case was more or less a slam dunk.

andrewinardeer•1h ago

Is it deliberate that I've never seen a media outlet publish a flattering photo of her?

That said, when the movie is inevitably released they'll probably cast Scarlett Johansson or Cailee Spaeny as her.

pppppiiiiiuuuuu•28m ago

Nearly all of the photos of her I can find are of her walking to and from a car. The others (which were very few and only one of which I thought was a good photo) seem like social media pics that news agencies probably couldn't publish. That does make more challenging to get a good picture of her, but I have a hard time believing they couldn't have done better that the one at the top of the article. It's particularly bad.

bloqs•26m ago

just looks like a normal person who is not posing for a photo, not some influencer

pppppiiiiiuuuuu•24m ago

To me it looks like when you take a bunch of pictures while someone is talking and some of them look extremely awkward because their mouth in a weird shape.

admissionsguy•5m ago

there are some but they required this amount of processing https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...

alexey-salmin•26m ago

> Ellison, 31

Remarkable how she did all this, landed in prison and will still have half of her life ahead when this chapter ends.

In Europe at this age many people are hesitant if it's the time to get their first job or not yet.

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FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison

FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison

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