FTX 前工程总监 Nishad Singh 被判服刑和 3 年监管释放

在 10 月 30 日美国纽约南区地方法院举行的听证会上，法官刘易斯·卡普兰 (Lewis Kaplan) 判处 29 岁的辛格服刑。

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.

一名联邦法官因挪用用户资金和违反竞选财务行为而判处 FTX 前工程总监尼沙德·辛格 (Nishad Singh) 服刑和三年监督释放。

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 日美国纽约南区地方法院举行的听证会上，法官刘易斯·卡普兰 (Lewis Kaplan) 判处 29 岁的辛格服刑。在前首席执行官 Sam Bankman-Fried、前 Alameda Research 首席执行官 Caroline Ellison 和前 FTX Digital Markets 联合首席执行官 Ryan Salame 的量刑听证会后，他是 FTX 高管起诉书中点名的第四位出庭受审的人。

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.

据 Inner City Press 法庭报道，辛格的律师声称 FTX 的“大部分”欺诈行为是班克曼-弗里德和埃里森行为的结果。这位前 FTX 高管表示，他对自己的角色“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.”

“这可能是美国历史上最大的罪行之一，”卡普兰法官在宣布他的决定之前说道。 “但我确信你的参与比班克曼-弗里德和埃里森的参与要有限得多。”

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 月卡普兰法官在审判前撤销班克曼-弗里德的保释以来，班克曼-弗里德一直被拘留。萨拉姆于 10 月 11 日向监狱报到，埃里森预计将于 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.

美国检察官在向法院提交的文件中表示，辛格在针对班克曼-弗里德的案件中向政府提供了“实质性协助”，并要求卡普兰法官考虑在量刑时予以合作。辛格的法律团队要求给予他足够的服务时间，班克曼-弗里德辞职后接任 FTX 首席执行官的约翰·雷 (John Ray) 建议，这位前工程总监的时间最好花在帮助破产案上。

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.

量刑听证会是在 FTX Japan 前首席运营官 Seth Melamed 在第 11 小时提出请求后进行的，他否认了 Singh 的说法，即他打电话给首席运营官的行动导致该交易所日本部门的资金“不被不当使用”。 FTX Japan 是加密货币交易所首批允许用户在 2023 年提取资金的子公司之一。

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 联合创始人加里·王 (Gary Wang) 很可能是该案中最后一位接受卡普兰法官宣判的人，他定于 11 月 20 日举行听证会。9 月，班克曼-弗里德的律师向第二巡回法院提出上诉，质疑他的定罪和判刑。 。