Wang was the final FTX executive awaiting sentencing over the 2022 exchange collapse and subsequent fraud charges.
FTX co-founder Zixiao “Gary” Wang was sentenced to time served plus forfeiture of assets in a US district court in New York on Nov. 20, making him the fifth and final executive sentenced over the exchange’s 2022 collapse.
Wang pleaded guilty to fraud charges in December 2022 alongside former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison. For her part in the scheme, in which she admitted to conspiring with FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried to steal $8 billion, Ellison received a two-year sentence.
Judge Lewis Kaplan has overseen all five cases and issued prison time in Ellison’s case as well as Bankman-Fried’s (25 years) and former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame (7.5 years).
