Nishad Singh will receive no prison time after pleading guilty to six felony charges in February 2023, cooperating with prosecutors and FTX’s debtors after the exchange’s collapse.
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.
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 after sentencing hearings for former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, and former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame.
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.
