FTX 的 Nishad Singh 因参与加密货币交易所崩溃而没有入狱

辛格被判服刑，他是第四位因参与欺诈而被判刑的 FTX 高管。

Former FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh was sentenced to time served on Wednesday by a federal judge for his role in the crypto exchange's fraud and collapse.

FTX 前工程总监 Nishad Singh 因在加密货币交易所欺诈和倒闭中所扮演的角色于周三被联邦法官判处监禁。

Singh, 29, was sentenced by District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to the six months he already served in prison following his arrest in March 2023. He was also ordered to pay $11 billion in restitution.

29 岁的辛格于 2023 年 3 月被捕后，被纽约南区 (SDNY) 地区法官刘易斯·卡普兰 (Lewis Kaplan) 判处 6 个月监禁。他还被勒令支付 110 亿美元的赔偿金。

Having pleaded guilty to six criminal counts including wire fraud and conspiracy in February, Singh is the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced for his role in the fraud. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in March for his role as ringleader. Former FTX Digital Markets CEO Ryan Salame recently began serving his 7.5 year prison sentence, while Caroline Ellison, former Alameda Research CEO and one-time girlfriend of Bankman-Fried, was sentenced to two years by Kaplan last month – her sentence heavily discounted by her prompt and extensive cooperation with prosecutors.

辛格于 2 月份承认了包括电汇欺诈和共谋在内的六项刑事罪名，成为第四位因参与欺诈而被判刑的 FTX 高管。今年 3 月，班克曼-弗里德因其头目罪名被判处 25 年徒刑。 FTX Digital Markets 前首席执行官 Ryan Salame 最近开始服刑 7.5 年徒刑，而 Alameda Research 前首席执行官、Bankman-Fried 的前女友 Caroline Ellison 上个月被 Kaplan 判处两年徒刑——她的刑期被她大大打折了。与检察官进行迅速和广泛的合作。

While Kaplan sounded sympathetic to Ellison during her sentencing last month, he contrasted her long-time involvement in and awareness of Bankman-Fried's fraud with Singh, who was out of the loop until only two months before the exchange collapsed.

虽然卡普兰在上个月的宣判​​中对埃里森表示同情，但他将埃里森长期参与并意识到班克曼-弗里德欺诈案与辛格进行了对比，辛格直到交易所倒闭前两个月才知情。

“Your case is not the case that Miss Ellison's was. She was involved from the beginning. She knew for years,” Kaplan said before handing down the sentence.

“你的情况与埃里森小姐的情况不同。她从一开始就参与其中。她多年来都知道，”卡普兰在宣判前说道。

Both Kaplan and prosecutors highlighted Singh's extensive cooperation with prosecutors, during which he incriminated himself repeatedly and informed the government of crimes they did not yet know about.

卡普兰和检察官都强调了辛格与检察官的广泛合作，在此期间，他多次自证其罪，并向政府通报了他们还不知道的罪行。

Although Singh did promptly cooperate with the prosecution after FTX collapsed – as well as the FTX bankruptcy estate, as highlighted in an Oct. 29 letter from current FTX CEO John J. Ray III to the court – including testifying against his childhood-friend in Bankman-Fried’s trial last October, he admitted he knew of the $8 billion hole in FTX’s balance sheet by September 2022, two months before the exchange collapsed.

尽管在 FTX 倒闭后，辛格以及 FTX 破产财产立即与检方合作，正如 FTX 现任首席执行官 John J. Ray III 在 10 月 29 日致法庭的信中所强调的那样，包括在 Bankman 案中出庭指控他的儿时好友-Fried 在去年 10 月的审判中承认，到 2022 年 9 月（即该交易所倒闭前两个月），他知道 FTX 的资产负债表存在 80 亿美元的缺口。

Despite knowing about the disastrous financial situation at FTX, Singh also went through with the purchase of a $3.7 million estate in Washington's Orcas Island in October of 2022, which his lawyer, Andrew Goldstein of Cooley LLP, described as a "deep mistake."

尽管知道 FTX 灾难性的财务状况，辛格还是于 2022 年 10 月在华盛顿奥卡斯岛购买了价值 370 万美元的房产，他的律师 Cooley LLP 的安德鲁·戈德斯坦 (Andrew Goldstein) 称这是一个“严重的错误”。

The sentence on Wednesday was surely welcome news to Singh and his legal team, who requested that the former FTX executive serve no prison time. In a court filing earlier this month, Singh’s lawyers urged the court to consider his “limited” involvement in the scheme, as well as his cooperation with the prosecutions of Bankman-Fried and Salame. The filing described him as an “uncommonly selfless individual” and attached more than 100 letters from friends and family.

周三的判决对于辛格和他的法律团队来说无疑是个好消息，他们要求这位前 FTX 高管不要入狱。在本月早些时候的一份法庭文件中，辛格的律师敦促法庭考虑他对该计划的“有限”参与，以及他与班克曼·弗里德和萨拉姆起诉方的合作。文件称他是一个“异常无私的人”，并附上了 100 多封朋友和家人的来信。

More than 20 friends and family members – including Singh's fiancee Claire Watanabe, his parents and his younger brother – attended the sentencing on Wednesday. Watanabe gasped with relief at the news that Singh would not be going to prison. Both parents shed tears.

周三，20 多名朋友和家人出席了宣判，其中包括辛格的未婚妻克莱尔·渡边 (Claire Watanabe)、他的父母和弟弟。得知辛格不会入狱的消息，渡边松了口气。父母双双流泪。

Before Kaplan dismissed the court, he spoke to Singh's parents, emphasizing that he was speaking from his personal perspective and not as a judge.

在卡普兰解散法庭之前，他与辛格的父母进行了交谈，强调他是从个人角度而非法官的角度发言。

"I don't see anything you did wrong," Kaplan said.

“我没有看到你做错了什么，”卡普兰说。

UPDATE (Oct. 30, 20:44 UTC): Adds details from sentencing hearing.

更新（世界标准时间 10 月 30 日 20:44）：添加量刑听证会的详细信息。

Cheyenne Ligon is a CoinDesk news reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She has no significant crypto holdings.

Cheyenne Ligon 是 CoinDesk 新闻记者，专注于加密货币监管和政策。她没有大量持有加密货币。