The Spectre of Sam Bankman-Fried Overshadowed Caroline Ellison’s Sentencing

Anjan Sahni, the Wilmer Hale companion representing Ellison on the stand, spoke a bit extra about Ellison as an individual, however nonetheless contrasted her with Bankman-Fried. Her position at Alameda was because of Bankman-Fried, her concealing Alameda’s monetary state of affairs was on the request of Bankman-Fried, certainly the central query of how Ellison got here to a sentencing listening to having pled responsible to fraud and conspiracy expenses got here all the way down to “why did Caroline associate with Sam Bankman-Fried,” he stated.