On the sixth day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial, Caroline Ellison, his ex-girlfriend and colleague, described how relief washed over her when the FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed.
Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, the hedge fund associated with the company, broke into tears as she described FTX’s final days in testimony Wednesday. She said that, during last year’s cryptocurrency crash, Bankman-Fried directed her to illegally appropriate FTX customers’ money and lie to its many lenders.