Sam Bankman-Fried
Founder; defendant
Founder of Alameda and FTX. Convicted 2 November 2023 on seven counts. Sentenced 28 March 2024 to 25 years. Appealed.
The FTX docket is crowded with celebrities and political recipients. The six below are the ones the verdict and the bankruptcy keep in frame.
Roles are taken from the indictment, pleas, the trial transcript, and Delaware filings.
People
Caroline Ellison
Alameda CEO; cooperator
Pleaded guilty in December 2022. Testified that Alameda used FTX customer assets and that Bankman-Fried directed key decisions. Awaiting sentence after cooperation.
Gary Wang
Co-founder; cooperator
FTX co-founder who pleaded guilty and testified about special Alameda access at the exchange. A technical witness as well as a fact witness.
Nishad Singh
Engineering lead; cooperator
Senior FTX engineer who pleaded guilty in 2023 and described internal systems and knowledge of the hole in customer funds.
Lewis A. Kaplan
U.S. District Judge
Southern District of New York judge who tried the case, ruled on evidence fights, and imposed the 25-year sentence.
John J. Ray III
Bankruptcy CEO
Brought in after Enron-era credentials (he had worked on Enron's estate). Told Congress FTX's controls were exceptionally weak; ran the Chapter 11 recovery.
Changpeng Zhao appears as a November 2022 market actor, not as a U.S. co-defendant in the Bankman-Fried trial. Political donees appear in campaign-finance side files.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.