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| | name = Nishad Singh | | |name = Nishad Singh |
| | image = | | |image = |
| | birth_date = 1994 | | |birth_date = 1995 |
| | birth_place = United States | | |birth_place = United States |
| |charges = Wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, money laundering conspiracy, campaign finance violations | | |charges = Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate campaign finance law |
| | sentence = Time served, 3 years supervised release, no prison | | |conviction_date = February 28, 2023 (guilty plea) |
| | facility = N/A | | |sentence = Time served, 3 years supervised release (no prison) |
| | status = Sentenced (October 2024) | | |sentencing_date = October 30, 2024 |
| | |judge = Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan |
| | |case_number = 1:22-cr-00673 (S.D.N.Y.) |
| | |facility = N/A |
| | |status = Sentenced to time served (no prison) |
| | |occupation = Software engineer |
| | |known_for = Director of engineering at FTX; cooperating witness against Sam Bankman-Fried |
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| '''Nishad Singh''' is an American software engineer who served as Director of Engineering at FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. Singh was among the senior executives who pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges following FTX's collapse in November 2022. In October 2024, Singh was sentenced to time served with no prison time, reflecting his extensive cooperation with federal prosecutors in the case against Bankman-Fried.
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| == Early Life and Education ==
| | '''Nishad Singh''' (born 1995) is an American software engineer who served as director of engineering at FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]. He was one of a small group of executives charged after the exchange collapsed in November 2022. Singh pleaded guilty to six federal counts in February 2023, including wire fraud and a campaign finance conspiracy.<ref name="cnbcplea">Rooney, Kate. "FTX ex-engineering chief Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges." CNBC, February 28, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/ftx-ex-engineering-head-nishad-singh-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-charges.html</ref> |
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| Nishad Singh was born in 1994 in the United States. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California, an elite private preparatory school where he excelled academically and demonstrated exceptional talent in competitive programming. During high school, Singh participated in programming competitions and was recognized as one of the top young computer science talents in the region.
| | He then cooperated with prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and testified against Bankman-Fried at trial. On October 30, 2024, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced him to time served and three years of supervised release. He received no prison time.<ref name="cnbcsentence">Rooney, Kate. "FTX's Nishad Singh gets no jail time, 3 years supervised release for role in crypto fraud." CNBC, October 30, 2024. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/30/ftxs-nishad-singh-gets-not-jail-time-3-years-supervised-release.html</ref><ref name="coindesk">Reynolds, Cheyenne Ligon, and others. "FTX's Nishad Singh Gets No Prison Time for Role in Crypto Exchange Collapse." CoinDesk, October 30, 2024. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/30/ftxs-nishad-singh-gets-no-prison-time-for-role-in-crypto-exchange-collapse</ref> |
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| Singh attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied computer science and graduated with distinction. At Berkeley, he developed expertise in high-performance systems architecture, distributed computing, and algorithmic trading infrastructure. His technical abilities and mathematical aptitude made him a natural fit for quantitative trading firms and cryptocurrency ventures. Singh's college years overlapped with the early stages of the cryptocurrency boom, and he developed a particular interest in the technical challenges of building exchange platforms capable of handling high-frequency trading at scale. | | Kaplan called Singh's cooperation "remarkable" and said he was persuaded that Singh's role in the fraud was far more limited than that of Bankman-Fried or Caroline Ellison, who ran the affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. The judge noted that Singh appeared to have been out of the loop on the central fraud until roughly two months before FTX failed. Singh was ordered to forfeit $11 billion.<ref name="cnbcsentence"/><ref name="nbcsentence">"FTX's Nishad Singh gets no jail time for role in crypto fraud." NBC News, October 30, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ftxs-nishad-singh-gets-no-jail-time-role-crypto-fraud-rcna178120</ref> |
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| == Connection to Sam Bankman-Fried == | | == Background == |
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| Singh's brother Ramnik Singh worked with Sam Bankman-Fried at Jane Street Capital, a prestigious quantitative trading firm known for recruiting top mathematical and programming talent from elite universities. Through his brother's professional connection, Nishad Singh met Bankman-Fried in the mid-2010s and was introduced to the emerging world of cryptocurrency trading. | | Singh grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Crystal Springs Uplands School, a private preparatory school in Hillsborough, California.<ref name="cryptoslate">"Nishad Singh." CryptoSlate People Directory. Accessed June 3, 2026. https://cryptoslate.com/people/nishad-singh/</ref> |
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| Bankman-Fried recognized Singh's technical abilities and recruited him to join the small team building Alameda Research's trading infrastructure. Singh became part of the tight-knit group of Berkeley graduates and quantitative traders who formed the core of Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency empire. This personal connection to Bankman-Fried through his brother would prove significant—Singh's loyalty to Bankman-Fried and their social circle contributed to his reluctance to report the fraud even as it became apparent to him. At trial, Singh testified that he viewed Bankman-Fried as both a mentor and friend, which made confronting the criminal conduct particularly difficult.
| | He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences in 2017.<ref name="cryptoslate"/> After a brief research stint at Berkeley, he worked as a software engineer at Facebook on applied machine learning during the second half of 2017.<ref name="cryptoslate"/> |
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| == Career at FTX and Alameda ==
| | Singh knew Bankman-Fried before he entered the cryptocurrency business. His older brother had worked alongside Bankman-Fried at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative trading firm. That connection brought the two men into contact. In December 2017, Singh left Facebook to join Alameda Research, the trading firm Bankman-Fried had started earlier that year.<ref name="cryptoslate"/><ref name="cnbcplea"/> |
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| === Joining Alameda Research ===
| | At Alameda the team was small. Singh built and maintained trading software and became one of a handful of engineers Bankman-Fried relied on. He was close enough to the founder to be counted among his inner circle, the group of young executives who later shared a penthouse in the Bahamas after FTX moved its headquarters to Nassau.<ref name="cnbcplea"/> |
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| Singh joined Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency trading firm, in 2017 during its early stages of operation. At the time, Alameda was a small operation focused on arbitrage opportunities in cryptocurrency markets, taking advantage of price discrepancies between different exchanges. Singh quickly became a key technical contributor, developing the trading systems and infrastructure that allowed Alameda to execute high-frequency trades across multiple platforms simultaneously.
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| Singh's work at Alameda included building automated trading bots, developing risk management systems, and creating the technical architecture that would later be adapted for FTX's exchange platform. His contributions were essential to Alameda's early profitability, and he was compensated with equity in the firm. During this period, Singh worked closely with Bankman-Fried and other early Alameda employees, including [[Caroline Ellison]] and [[Gary Wang]], in what was described as an intense startup environment where the small team lived and worked together. | | FTX launched in 2019. Singh became its director of engineering. The job placed him near the center of the company's technology. He worked on the exchange's core systems and was one of a few people with deep access to the code that ran the platform and moved customer money.<ref name="cnbcplea"/><ref name="cryptoslate"/> |
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| === Director of Engineering at FTX ===
| | That access mattered later. Prosecutors said FTX customer deposits were quietly funneled to Alameda Research, which used the money for its own trading, loans, real estate, and political spending. The transfers ran through software permissions and accounting entries rather than ordinary loans. Singh's engineering role gave him a clear view of how the systems worked, which is part of why his account carried weight once he agreed to cooperate.<ref name="cnbcsentence"/><ref name="coindesk"/> |
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| When FTX was founded in 2019, Singh became Director of Engineering, one of the most senior technical roles at the company and a position that gave him access to the exchange's core systems and databases. His responsibilities included:
| | Singh also held an equity stake in FTX. On paper that stake was worth a large sum during the period when the company was valued in the tens of billions. When the exchange failed, the equity became worthless.<ref name="coindesk"/> |
| * Building and maintaining FTX's trading platform and matching engine
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| * Developing key exchange features including derivatives trading, margin systems, and the FTT token infrastructure
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| * Managing engineering teams that grew from a handful of developers to over 100 engineers
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| * Implementing systems that, as later revealed, enabled Alameda to maintain special privileges on the platform, including unlimited borrowing capacity
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| Singh held a significant ownership stake in FTX, estimated at several percent of the company's equity. When FTX was valued at $32 billion in early 2022, Singh's stake was worth hundreds of millions of dollars on paper, making him one of the wealthiest individuals under 30. This paper wealth was frequently cited in media coverage of FTX's rapid rise, with Singh appearing on lists of young cryptocurrency billionaires and tech prodigies.
| | He was a political donor as well. During the 2022 election cycle Singh gave millions of dollars to candidates, committees, and causes. Prosecutors later said those contributions were funded with FTX money and were structured to hide their true source, which formed the basis for the campaign finance charge he pleaded to.<ref name="cnbcplea"/><ref name="cnnplea">"Former director of engineering at FTX Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges." CNN Business, February 28, 2023. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/investing/nishad-singh-ftx-guilty-plea/index.html</ref> |
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| Critically, Singh had the technical access and expertise to understand how FTX's systems actually operated. His role gave him visibility into the database structures that showed customer deposits, the code that allowed Alameda to maintain a negative balance, and the technical mechanisms by which billions in customer funds were transferred to Alameda. This technical knowledge would later become central to both his criminal culpability and the value of his cooperation with prosecutors.
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| === Lifestyle === | | FTX came apart over a few days in November 2022. A report on Alameda's balance sheet raised questions about how much of its value rested on FTX's own token. A rival exchange said it would sell its holdings of that token. Customers rushed to pull their money out. FTX could not meet the withdrawals, halted them, and filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022. Bankman-Fried resigned as chief executive.<ref name="coindesk"/> |
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| Singh lived in a luxury penthouse in the Bahamas alongside other FTX executives after the company relocated its headquarters to Nassau in 2021. Unlike Bankman-Fried, who cultivated a public image of frugality despite his own extravagant spending, Singh embraced a more openly lavish lifestyle befitting his paper net worth:
| | Federal investigators moved quickly. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission all opened cases. Within weeks they had identified Singh as a senior insider with detailed knowledge of the company's operations.<ref name="cnbcplea"/> |
| * Purchased a $3.7 million home in the Bahamas in 2022, a waterfront property in one of Nassau's most exclusive neighborhoods
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| * Made significant charitable donations, including millions to effective altruism causes and pandemic prevention initiatives
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| * Contributed tens of millions to political campaigns, becoming one of the top individual political donors in the 2022 cycle
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| * Enjoyed access to private jets, luxury vehicles, and the other perks of FTX's executive lifestyle
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| At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that virtually all of Singh's spending—including his real estate purchases and political donations—was funded directly or indirectly by misappropriated customer funds. Singh himself acknowledged that his compensation and bonuses from FTX, which enabled his lifestyle, were artificially inflated by the fraudulent profits Alameda generated using stolen customer deposits.
| | By his own account, Singh learned the full scope of the missing customer funds only late in the company's life. At sentencing the judge accepted that Singh was unaware of the core fraud until about two months before the collapse, a point that separated him from longer-running participants in the scheme.<ref name="cnbcsentence"/><ref name="courthouse">"No jail time for former FTX exec Nishad Singh, an early cooperator against Bankman-Fried." Courthouse News Service, October 30, 2024. https://www.courthousenews.com/no-jail-time-for-former-ftx-exec-nishad-singh-an-early-cooperator-against-bankman-fried/</ref> |
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| == Role in the Fraud == | | == Guilty Plea and Cooperation == |
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| === Knowledge of Misappropriation === | | On February 28, 2023, Singh pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to six counts:<ref name="cnbcplea"/><ref name="cnnplea"/> |
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| As Director of Engineering, Singh had deep insight into FTX's technical systems and database architecture. According to his guilty plea and trial testimony, Singh became aware of the fraud in multiple stages, with his knowledge crystallizing over time. He later admitted under oath that he was aware:
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| * Alameda Research was using FTX customer deposits as early as 2021, enabled by code that allowed Alameda to maintain a negative balance of up to $65 billion | | * Wire fraud |
| * Billions of dollars in customer funds were unaccounted for by mid-2022, when he began reviewing the company's financial position in detail
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| * FTX's public statements about segregation of customer funds were false and misleading, as customer assets were being freely transferred to Alameda
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| * The "[email protected]" account, which appeared to represent Alameda's liabilities to FTX, was manipulated to conceal the true magnitude of customer fund misappropriation | |
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| Singh testified that in summer 2022, he confronted Bankman-Fried about the discrepancies he had discovered in FTX's books. Bankman-Fried allegedly told Singh that Alameda had lost customer funds through bad trades and loans that had not been repaid, but assured him the situation could be resolved through profitable trading. Singh admitted he chose to believe these assurances rather than report the fraud to regulators or law enforcement, a decision he later characterized as the biggest mistake of his life.
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| Singh made substantial political contributions using funds derived from FTX, becoming a major player in the 2022 election cycle:
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| * Donated approximately $9.3 million to Democratic candidates, committees, and causes during the 2020-2022 election cycles
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| * Contributed to political action committees focused on pandemic preparedness and biosecurity, causes aligned with effective altruism priorities
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| * Became one of the top 30 individual political donors in the 2022 election cycle, despite being only 28 years old
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| * Made donations to House and Senate candidates, including significant contributions to competitive races
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| According to trial testimony and court filings, Singh made these donations at Bankman-Fried's direction as part of a coordinated strategy to build political influence for FTX. Bankman-Fried allegedly instructed Singh on which candidates and causes to support, with Singh serving as one of several "straw donors" who made contributions on behalf of the company using funds that were sourced from FTX customer deposits.
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| These donations were later revealed to have been funded at least in part by misappropriated customer funds, adding [[Campaign Finance Violations|campaign finance violations]] to Singh's legal exposure. The scheme violated federal campaign finance laws that prohibit corporate contributions and require disclosure of the true source of political donations. Many of the politicians who received Singh's donations later returned them or donated them to charity after FTX's collapse.
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| Singh testified that he became increasingly concerned about the fraud as it escalated throughout 2022. According to his court testimony, Singh's awareness of the full scope of the fraud developed gradually, reaching a crisis point in the months before FTX's collapse.
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| In June 2022, Singh learned that the hole in customer funds had grown to approximately $8 billion, far larger than he had previously understood. He confronted Bankman-Fried about the growing deficit in customer accounts, asking pointed questions about how such massive losses could have occurred and whether they could be recovered. Bankman-Fried allegedly downplayed the severity of the situation and continued to assure Singh that Alameda's trading operations would generate sufficient profits to repay the customer funds.
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| * Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced his exchange would liquidate its FTT holdings, triggering a broader loss of confidence
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| * Customers rushed to withdraw funds from FTX, creating a classic bank run that the exchange could not satisfy
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| * On November 8, FTX halted customer withdrawals, publicly revealing for the first time that billions in customer deposits were missing
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| On February 28, 2023, Singh pleaded guilty to six federal charges in a proceeding before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan:
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| * Conspiracy to commit commodities fraud | | * Conspiracy to commit commodities fraud |
| * Conspiracy to commit [[Money Laundering|money laundering]] | | * Conspiracy to commit securities fraud |
| * Violation of federal [[Campaign Finance Violations|campaign finance laws]]
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| * Conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission | | * Conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate federal campaign finance law |
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| He was the third FTX insider to plead guilty and cooperate, following [[Caroline Ellison]] and [[Gary Wang]]. Singh's guilty plea came relatively quickly after FTX's collapse—within approximately three months of the bankruptcy filing—suggesting that prosecutors moved swiftly to secure cooperation from key witnesses against Bankman-Fried.
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| In his guilty plea, Singh admitted that he had knowingly participated in the fraudulent scheme by failing to disclose the misappropriation of customer funds despite his knowledge of it, by making political donations funded by stolen customer money, and by helping to maintain the technical systems that enabled the fraud. He faced a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison across all counts, though prosecutors immediately indicated they would recommend leniency based on his cooperation.
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| === Cooperation === | | He was the third member of Bankman-Fried's senior circle to plead guilty and cooperate, after Gary Wang, an FTX co-founder, and Caroline Ellison, who had led Alameda Research. [[Ryan Salame]], another FTX executive, faced his own case and later received a prison term.<ref name="cnbcplea"/> |
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| Singh immediately began cooperating with federal prosecutors, and his cooperation was described by the government as "substantial" and "extraordinary." His cooperation included: | | Singh's cooperation began right away. He met with prosecutors, walked them through how FTX's systems handled customer money, and helped them understand the technical record. Because he had built and maintained much of that software, he could explain the mechanics of the transfers in plain terms.<ref name="cnbcplea"/> |
| * Providing detailed information about FTX's internal operations, including technical documentation of how the systems allowed Alameda to access customer funds
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| * Explaining how the fraud was structured and concealed, including the database manipulations and accounting tricks used to hide the misappropriation
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| * Testifying at Bankman-Fried's criminal trial in October-November 2023
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| * Providing documentation and communications, including code repositories, internal messages, and financial records
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| * Participating in numerous proffer sessions with federal prosecutors to prepare his testimony and explain technical aspects of the fraud
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| * Agreeing to testify at future proceedings if needed, including potential trials of other FTX-related defendants
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| According to court filings, Singh met with prosecutors on numerous occasions over many months, helping them understand the technical infrastructure of FTX and Alameda. His cooperation was particularly valuable because of his technical expertise—he could explain to investigators and eventually juries exactly how the fraud worked at a code and database level, making the complex scheme comprehensible to non-technical audiences.
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| At Bankman-Fried's trial in October-November 2023, Singh provided significant testimony over multiple days as a key government witness. His testimony covered several critical areas:
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| * He explained the political donation scheme in detail, testifying that Bankman-Fried directed him to make specific donations and that the funds came from FTX customer deposits
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| * He testified about Bankman-Fried's directives and decision-making authority, making clear that Bankman-Fried was the ultimate decision-maker for both FTX and Alameda
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| * He walked the jury through technical details of how FTX's code allowed Alameda to maintain an unlimited negative balance, using exhibits and simplified explanations
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| * He expressed deep remorse for his own role in the fraud, telling the jury he felt "ashamed" and "devastated" by his actions
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| | Singh was sentenced on October 30, 2024. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan gave him time served and three years of supervised release. He went to no prison.<ref name="cnbcsentence"/><ref name="nbcsentence"/> |
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| The sentence reflected his extensive cooperation and his role as a subordinate rather than a leader of the fraud. Judge Kaplan noted during the sentencing hearing that while Singh's crimes were serious and involved billions of dollars in losses to victims, his cooperation had been "remarkable" and his remorse appeared genuine. The judge distinguished Singh's case from that of Bankman-Fried, emphasizing that Singh had not been the mastermind of the scheme and had ultimately provided critical assistance to prosecutors.
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| Judge Kaplan cited several factors in the lenient sentence during the October 30, 2024 sentencing hearing:
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| * His role as a follower rather than mastermind—the court found that while Singh knew about the fraud and failed to stop it, he did not design or initiate the scheme
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| The government's sentencing memorandum praised Singh's cooperation as going "above and beyond" what was required by his plea agreement. Prosecutors noted that Singh had provided truthful and detailed information even when it was personally embarrassing or incriminating, and that he had never attempted to obstruct the investigation or protect other defendants. The judge also considered victim impact statements but concluded that Singh's cooperation ultimately served the interests of justice more than additional incarceration would.
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| Singh's no-prison sentence stood in stark contrast to Bankman-Fried's 25-year sentence, illustrating the profound difference cooperation can make in federal sentencing. Both men were convicted of overlapping charges related to the same fraud scheme, but their sentencing outcomes could not have been more different.
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| Bankman-Fried received 25 years in federal prison after being convicted at trial, while Singh received time served with no additional incarceration after pleading guilty and cooperating. The disparity reflected several factors:
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| * Bankman-Fried maintained his innocence and fought the charges at trial, while Singh immediately accepted responsibility
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| * Bankman-Fried showed little remorse and continued to make public statements minimizing the harm to victims, while Singh expressed genuine contrition
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| Singh faced parallel civil enforcement actions from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in addition to his criminal case. The SEC charged Singh with violations of federal securities laws related to the offer and sale of FTX equity and crypto assets, while the CFTC charged him with commodities fraud related to the operation of FTX's derivatives platform.
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| Singh settled both civil cases, agreeing to permanent injunctions and cooperating with the agencies' ongoing investigations into other FTX-related matters. Unlike in criminal cases where cooperation can result in reduced prison time, civil settlements typically require disgorgement of ill-gotten gains and civil penalties. However, given that Singh's assets were largely depleted by FTX's bankruptcy and criminal forfeiture, the civil monetary components of his settlements were largely symbolic.
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| As part of his plea agreement, Singh agreed to forfeit assets derived from his role at FTX, including real estate and investment positions. The forfeiture order covered:
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| Singh's political donations became the subject of clawback efforts by the FTX bankruptcy estate, which sought to recover the approximately $9.3 million in contributions he made using misappropriated customer funds. The bankruptcy trustee filed lawsuits and sent demand letters to political committees and candidates who received donations from Singh, arguing that the funds were fraudulently transferred and should be returned to the estate for distribution to creditors. | | Kaplan described Singh's assistance to the government as "remarkable." He drew a line between Singh and others in the case. He said Singh's involvement in the fraud was far more limited than Bankman-Fried's, and more limited than Ellison's, who had been close to the conduct for a long time. In the judge's account, Singh stayed outside the central scheme until roughly two months before FTX collapsed. Kaplan told him, "You did the right thing."<ref name="cnbcsentence"/><ref name="nbcsentence"/> |
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| Many recipients voluntarily returned Singh's donations or donated equivalent amounts to charity once the fraud came to light. However, some political committees argued they had spent the funds in good faith and were protected from clawback under applicable law. The bankruptcy litigation over political donations extended beyond Singh to include the approximately $100 million in total political contributions made by FTX executives and entities.
| | The court ordered Singh to forfeit $11 billion. The figure reflected the scale of the fraud rather than money Singh personally held, and forfeited proceeds across the FTX cases were directed toward recovering funds for victims.<ref name="cnbcsentence"/><ref name="coindesk"/> |
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| == Personal Impact ==
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| Singh's career and personal life were completely upended by the FTX scandal, transforming him from a celebrated technology prodigy into a convicted felon:
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| * His reputation in the technology industry was destroyed, making it unlikely he will work in tech or finance again given his felony convictions for fraud
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| * His significant wealth—estimated at several hundred million dollars on paper—was entirely forfeited or lost in FTX's bankruptcy
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| * He faced criminal prosecution and the realistic possibility of decades in prison before his cooperation secured leniency
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| * He was required to testify against Bankman-Fried, a former mentor and friend, describing in open court how Bankman-Fried had directed the fraud
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| * His relationship with his family was strained by the public nature of the scandal and his criminal conduct
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| Associates and attorneys who worked with Singh described him as genuinely remorseful and emotionally devastated by his role in the fraud, distinguishing him from Bankman-Fried's defiant posture and continued minimization of harm to victims. Singh's emotional state was evident in his court appearances, where he appeared visibly distressed when discussing the impact on FTX customers.
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| During his sentencing hearing, Singh addressed the court and victims directly, stating that he was "overwhelmed with remorse" and that he thought about the victims' losses every day. He acknowledged that no apology could undo the harm caused and that he would carry the shame of his actions for the rest of his life.
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| == Legacy ==
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| === Effective Cooperation ===
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| Singh's case, alongside [[Gary Wang]]'s, demonstrated the extraordinary value federal prosecutors place on early and comprehensive cooperation in complex white-collar cases. Both received time-served sentences despite their significant roles in a multi-billion dollar fraud that caused devastating losses to thousands of victims.
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| The lenient sentences sparked some public controversy, with victims and their advocates questioning whether cooperators should avoid prison entirely when their crimes caused such massive harm. However, prosecutors defended the sentences as necessary to incentivize cooperation in cases where convicting the most culpable defendants requires insider testimony. Without Singh's and Wang's cooperation, proving Bankman-Fried's intent and knowledge would have been substantially more difficult, potentially allowing the fraud's mastermind to escape accountability.
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| The FTX cooperators' sentences have become frequently cited examples in criminal defense practice, demonstrating to potential cooperators in other white-collar cases that even defendants facing decades of exposure can avoid prison entirely through early, comprehensive, and truthful cooperation.
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| The political donation aspect of Singh's case highlighted significant vulnerabilities in campaign finance regulation and enforcement. Singh's $9.3 million in contributions, part of approximately $100 million in total FTX-related political spending, demonstrated how easily fraudulent funds can be laundered into the political system through straw donor schemes.
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| * Political committees conduct minimal due diligence on the source of large donations, accepting them as long as they comply with surface-level legal requirements
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| * Straw donor schemes—where individuals make contributions on behalf of others—are difficult to detect in real-time, typically coming to light only after fraud investigations
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| * The coordination between Bankman-Fried and Singh to make contributions was not detected by the Federal Election Commission until prosecutors exposed it during their criminal investigation
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| * Even after the fraud was revealed, recovering the political donations proved legally complex, with some committees arguing they were protected recipients who had spent the funds in good faith
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| Singh's guilty plea to campaign finance violations represented a relatively rare federal prosecution of straw donor schemes, most of which are handled civilly by the FEC if addressed at all. The case led to renewed calls for stronger campaign finance enforcement and real-time verification of donation sources.
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| * [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]
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| {{FAQ|question=Who is Nishad Singh?|answer=Nishad Singh was the Director of Engineering at FTX cryptocurrency exchange who pleaded guilty to fraud and campaign finance charges and received no prison time due to his cooperation with prosecutors.}} | | {{FAQ|question=Who is Nishad Singh?|answer=Nishad Singh is an American software engineer who served as director of engineering at FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. He pleaded guilty to six federal counts in 2023 and cooperated with prosecutors against Bankman-Fried.}} |
| {{FAQ|question=Did Nishad Singh go to prison?|answer=No. Singh received a sentence of time served with no prison time in October 2024 due to his extensive cooperation with federal prosecutors in the case against Sam Bankman-Fried.}} | | {{FAQ|question=Did Nishad Singh go to prison?|answer=No. On October 30, 2024, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced Singh to time served and three years of supervised release. He received no prison time, which the judge attributed to his cooperation and his more limited role in the fraud.}} |
| {{FAQ|question=What was Nishad Singh's role at FTX?|answer=Singh served as Director of Engineering, overseeing the technical systems at FTX. He was one of the most senior executives at the company and held a significant ownership stake.}} | | {{FAQ|question=What did Nishad Singh plead guilty to?|answer=On February 28, 2023, Singh pleaded guilty to six counts: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate federal campaign finance law.}} |
| {{FAQ|question=How much did Nishad Singh donate to political campaigns?|answer=Singh donated approximately $9 million to Democratic candidates and causes during the 2022 election cycle, making him one of the largest individual political donors that year.}} | | {{FAQ|question=What was Nishad Singh's role at FTX?|answer=Singh was director of engineering. He worked on the exchange's core systems and was one of a small number of people with deep access to the code that ran the platform and moved customer funds.}} |
| {{FAQ|question=Why did Nishad Singh avoid prison?|answer=Prosecutors credited Singh's immediate and extensive cooperation, including his testimony at Bankman-Fried's trial, as the reason for recommending leniency. The judge agreed his cooperation was extraordinary.}} | | {{FAQ|question=Why did Nishad Singh avoid prison?|answer=Judge Kaplan called Singh's cooperation "remarkable" and found that his involvement in the fraud was far more limited than that of Bankman-Fried or Caroline Ellison. The judge accepted that Singh was out of the loop on the core fraud until about two months before FTX collapsed.}} |
| | {{FAQ|question=Did Nishad Singh testify against Sam Bankman-Fried?|answer=Yes. Singh testified at Bankman-Fried's 2023 trial, describing FTX's finances, the movement of customer money to Alameda Research, and his own role in political donations. Bankman-Fried was convicted on all counts.}} |
| | {{FAQ|question=How much was Nishad Singh ordered to forfeit?|answer=The court ordered Singh to forfeit $11 billion. The amount reflected the scale of the fraud rather than money Singh personally held, with forfeited proceeds across the FTX cases directed toward victim recovery.}} |
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| Nishad Singh
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1995
United States
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Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate campaign finance law
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Time served, 3 years supervised release (no prison)
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Sentenced to time served (no prison)
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Nishad Singh (born 1995) is an American software engineer who served as director of engineering at FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. He was one of a small group of executives charged after the exchange collapsed in November 2022. Singh pleaded guilty to six federal counts in February 2023, including wire fraud and a campaign finance conspiracy.[1]
He then cooperated with prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and testified against Bankman-Fried at trial. On October 30, 2024, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced him to time served and three years of supervised release. He received no prison time.[2][3]
Kaplan called Singh's cooperation "remarkable" and said he was persuaded that Singh's role in the fraud was far more limited than that of Bankman-Fried or Caroline Ellison, who ran the affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. The judge noted that Singh appeared to have been out of the loop on the central fraud until roughly two months before FTX failed. Singh was ordered to forfeit $11 billion.[2][4]
Background
Singh grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Crystal Springs Uplands School, a private preparatory school in Hillsborough, California.[5]
He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences in 2017.[5] After a brief research stint at Berkeley, he worked as a software engineer at Facebook on applied machine learning during the second half of 2017.[5]
Singh knew Bankman-Fried before he entered the cryptocurrency business. His older brother had worked alongside Bankman-Fried at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative trading firm. That connection brought the two men into contact. In December 2017, Singh left Facebook to join Alameda Research, the trading firm Bankman-Fried had started earlier that year.[5][1]
At Alameda the team was small. Singh built and maintained trading software and became one of a handful of engineers Bankman-Fried relied on. He was close enough to the founder to be counted among his inner circle, the group of young executives who later shared a penthouse in the Bahamas after FTX moved its headquarters to Nassau.[1]
Role at FTX
FTX launched in 2019. Singh became its director of engineering. The job placed him near the center of the company's technology. He worked on the exchange's core systems and was one of a few people with deep access to the code that ran the platform and moved customer money.[1][5]
That access mattered later. Prosecutors said FTX customer deposits were quietly funneled to Alameda Research, which used the money for its own trading, loans, real estate, and political spending. The transfers ran through software permissions and accounting entries rather than ordinary loans. Singh's engineering role gave him a clear view of how the systems worked, which is part of why his account carried weight once he agreed to cooperate.[2][3]
Singh also held an equity stake in FTX. On paper that stake was worth a large sum during the period when the company was valued in the tens of billions. When the exchange failed, the equity became worthless.[3]
He was a political donor as well. During the 2022 election cycle Singh gave millions of dollars to candidates, committees, and causes. Prosecutors later said those contributions were funded with FTX money and were structured to hide their true source, which formed the basis for the campaign finance charge he pleaded to.[1][6]
The Collapse of FTX
FTX came apart over a few days in November 2022. A report on Alameda's balance sheet raised questions about how much of its value rested on FTX's own token. A rival exchange said it would sell its holdings of that token. Customers rushed to pull their money out. FTX could not meet the withdrawals, halted them, and filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022. Bankman-Fried resigned as chief executive.[3]
Federal investigators moved quickly. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission all opened cases. Within weeks they had identified Singh as a senior insider with detailed knowledge of the company's operations.[1]
By his own account, Singh learned the full scope of the missing customer funds only late in the company's life. At sentencing the judge accepted that Singh was unaware of the core fraud until about two months before the collapse, a point that separated him from longer-running participants in the scheme.[2][7]
Guilty Plea and Cooperation
On February 28, 2023, Singh pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to six counts:[1][6]
- Conspiracy to commit wire fraud
- Wire fraud
- Conspiracy to commit commodities fraud
- Conspiracy to commit securities fraud
- Conspiracy to commit money laundering
- Conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate federal campaign finance law
He was the third member of Bankman-Fried's senior circle to plead guilty and cooperate, after Gary Wang, an FTX co-founder, and Caroline Ellison, who had led Alameda Research. Ryan Salame, another FTX executive, faced his own case and later received a prison term.[1]
Singh's cooperation began right away. He met with prosecutors, walked them through how FTX's systems handled customer money, and helped them understand the technical record. Because he had built and maintained much of that software, he could explain the mechanics of the transfers in plain terms.[1]
He testified at Bankman-Fried's trial in the fall of 2023. On the stand he described the company's finances, the movement of customer funds to Alameda, and his own role in the political donations. His testimony was part of the government's case that ended in Bankman-Fried's conviction on all counts.[2][3]
Sentencing
Singh was sentenced on October 30, 2024. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan gave him time served and three years of supervised release. He went to no prison.[2][4]
The statutory exposure had been steep. The counts together carried a maximum of decades in prison. Prosecutors had urged leniency based on his cooperation, and the judge agreed that a sentence without incarceration was warranted.[3][7]
Kaplan described Singh's assistance to the government as "remarkable." He drew a line between Singh and others in the case. He said Singh's involvement in the fraud was far more limited than Bankman-Fried's, and more limited than Ellison's, who had been close to the conduct for a long time. In the judge's account, Singh stayed outside the central scheme until roughly two months before FTX collapsed. Kaplan told him, "You did the right thing."[2][4]
The court ordered Singh to forfeit $11 billion. The figure reflected the scale of the fraud rather than money Singh personally held, and forfeited proceeds across the FTX cases were directed toward recovering funds for victims.[2][3]
The outcome stood in sharp contrast to Bankman-Fried, who was convicted at trial and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Both men were tied to the same fraud, but cooperation, timing, and the judge's reading of their relative roles produced very different results.[3][7]
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is Nishad Singh?
Nishad Singh is an American software engineer who served as director of engineering at FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. He pleaded guilty to six federal counts in 2023 and cooperated with prosecutors against Bankman-Fried.
Q: Did Nishad Singh go to prison?
No. On October 30, 2024, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced Singh to time served and three years of supervised release. He received no prison time, which the judge attributed to his cooperation and his more limited role in the fraud.
Q: What did Nishad Singh plead guilty to?
On February 28, 2023, Singh pleaded guilty to six counts: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate federal campaign finance law.
Q: What was Nishad Singh's role at FTX?
Singh was director of engineering. He worked on the exchange's core systems and was one of a small number of people with deep access to the code that ran the platform and moved customer funds.
Q: Why did Nishad Singh avoid prison?
Judge Kaplan called Singh's cooperation "remarkable" and found that his involvement in the fraud was far more limited than that of Bankman-Fried or Caroline Ellison. The judge accepted that Singh was out of the loop on the core fraud until about two months before FTX collapsed.
Q: Did Nishad Singh testify against Sam Bankman-Fried?
Yes. Singh testified at Bankman-Fried's 2023 trial, describing FTX's finances, the movement of customer money to Alameda Research, and his own role in political donations. Bankman-Fried was convicted on all counts.
Q: How much was Nishad Singh ordered to forfeit?
The court ordered Singh to forfeit $11 billion. The amount reflected the scale of the fraud rather than money Singh personally held, with forfeited proceeds across the FTX cases directed toward victim recovery.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Rooney, Kate. "FTX ex-engineering chief Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges." CNBC, February 28, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/ftx-ex-engineering-head-nishad-singh-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-charges.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Rooney, Kate. "FTX's Nishad Singh gets no jail time, 3 years supervised release for role in crypto fraud." CNBC, October 30, 2024. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/30/ftxs-nishad-singh-gets-not-jail-time-3-years-supervised-release.html
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Reynolds, Cheyenne Ligon, and others. "FTX's Nishad Singh Gets No Prison Time for Role in Crypto Exchange Collapse." CoinDesk, October 30, 2024. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/30/ftxs-nishad-singh-gets-no-prison-time-for-role-in-crypto-exchange-collapse
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "FTX's Nishad Singh gets no jail time for role in crypto fraud." NBC News, October 30, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ftxs-nishad-singh-gets-no-jail-time-role-crypto-fraud-rcna178120
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Nishad Singh." CryptoSlate People Directory. Accessed June 3, 2026. https://cryptoslate.com/people/nishad-singh/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Former director of engineering at FTX Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges." CNN Business, February 28, 2023. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/investing/nishad-singh-ftx-guilty-plea/index.html
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "No jail time for former FTX exec Nishad Singh, an early cooperator against Bankman-Fried." Courthouse News Service, October 30, 2024. https://www.courthousenews.com/no-jail-time-for-former-ftx-exec-nishad-singh-an-early-cooperator-against-bankman-fried/
