At a Sept. 12 hearing, Judge Lewis Kaplan moved up Ryan Salame’s reporting date by two days and considered vacating his guilty plea.
Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame appeared in a New York courtroom in person as part of a hearing for a federal judge to consider a motion to vacate his guilty plea related to the cryptocurrency exchange’s downfall.
According to reporting from Inner City Press on Sept. 12, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York questioned whether Salame had committed perjury as part of his guilty plea for making unlawful political contributions, defrauding the Federal Election Commission and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business.
Salame reportedly suggested that he would be willing to testify that he believed he had an agreement with prosecutors in hearings or the criminal trial of his partner, Michelle Bond.
