FTX 前工程總監 Nishad Singh 被判服刑和 3 年監管釋放

在 10 月 30 日美國紐約南區地方法院舉行的聽證會上，法官劉易斯卡普蘭 (Lewis Kaplan) 判處 29 歲的辛格服刑。

A federal judge has sentenced Nishad Singh, the former engineering director of FTX, to time served and three years of supervised release for his role in misappropriating user funds and campaign finance violations.

一名聯邦法官因挪用用戶資金和違反競選財務行為而判處 FTX 前工程總監尼沙德辛格 (Nishad Singh) 服刑和三年監督釋放。

In an Oct. 30 hearing in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced the 29-year-old Singh to time served. He was the fourth individual named in the indictment of FTX executives to stand before a judge following sentencing hearings for former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, and former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame.

在 10 月 30 日美國紐約南區地方法院舉行的聽證會上，法官劉易斯卡普蘭 (Lewis Kaplan) 判處 29 歲的辛格服刑。在前執行長Sam Bankman-Fried、前Alameda Research 執行長Caroline Ellison 和前FTX Digital Markets 聯合執行長Ryan Salame 的量刑聽證會後，他是FTX 高階主管起訴書中點名的第四位出庭受審的人。

According to reporting from the courtroom by Inner City Press, Singh’s lawyers alleged “most of” the fraud at FTX was the result of Bankman-Fried’s and Ellison’s actions. The former FTX executive said he was “overwhelmed with remorse” for his role.

據 Inner City Press 法庭報道，辛格的律師聲稱 FTX 的「大部分」欺詐行為是班克曼-弗里德和埃里森行為的結果。這位前 FTX 高層表示，他對自己的角色「感到非常悔恨」。

“This may have been one of the biggest crimes in American history,” said Judge Kaplan before announcing his decision. “But I’m convinced your involvement was much more limited than certainly Bankman-Fried’s and Ellison’s.”

「這可能是美國歷史上最大的罪行之一，」卡普蘭法官在宣布他的決定之前說道。 “但我確信你的參與比班克曼-弗里德和埃里森的參與要有限得多。”

Bankman-Fried has been in custody since August 2023 when Judge Kaplan revoked his bail prior to trial. Salame reported to prison on Oct. 11, and Ellison is expected to surrender herself by Nov. 7.

自 2023 年 8 月卡普蘭法官在審判前撤銷班克曼-弗里德的保釋以來，班克曼-弗里德一直被拘留。薩拉姆於 10 月 11 日向監獄報到，艾里森預計將於 11 月 7 日自首。

In filings to the court, US prosecutors said Singh provided “substantial assistance” to the government in its case against Bankman-Fried and asked Judge Kaplan to consider his cooperation at sentencing. Singh’s legal team asked he be given time served, and John Ray, who took over as FTX’s CEO after Bankman-Fried resigned, suggested the former engineering director’s time would be better spent helping the bankruptcy case.

美國檢察官在向法院提交的文件中表示，辛格在針對班克曼-弗里德的案件中向政府提供了“實質性協助”，並要求卡普蘭法官考慮在量刑時予以合作。辛格的法律團隊要求給他足夠的服務時間，班克曼-弗里德辭職後接任FTX 首席執行官的約翰·雷(John Ray) 建議，這位前工程總監的時間最好花在幫助破產案上。

The sentencing hearing followed an 11th-hour request from former FTX Japan chief operating officer Seth Melamed, who denied Singh’s claims that he called the COO in an action that resulted in funds from the exchange’s Japan arm “not [to] be used improperly.” FTX Japan was one of the first subsidiaries of the crypto exchange to allow users to withdraw funds in 2023.

量刑聽證會是在FTX Japan 前首席營運長Seth Melamed 在第11 小時提出請求後進行的，他否認了Singh 的說法，即他打電話給首席營運官的行動導致該交易所日本部門的資金「不被不當使用」。 FTX Japan 是加密貨幣交易所首批允許用戶在 2023 年提取資金的子公司之一。

FTX co-founder Gary Wang, likely the last individual in the case to stand before Judge Kaplan for sentencing, has a hearing scheduled for Nov. 20. In September, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers filed an appeal in the Second Circuit challenging his conviction and sentence.

FTX 聯合創始人加里·王(Gary Wang) 可能是該案中最後一個在卡普蘭法官面前接受量刑的人，他定於11 月20 日舉行聽證會。律師向第二巡迴法院提出上訴，質疑他的定罪和判刑。