Caroline Ellison, the mathematician who ran Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto trading empire before becoming the government's star witness against him, was released from federal custody on 21 January — roughly 10 months earlier than her full sentence would have required.
The 31-year-old former Alameda Research chief executive left a residential re-entry programme in New York, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, marking the end of her custodial period for helping orchestrate what prosecutors described as 'one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.'
