Restaurateur, political donor, tipster: The many roles of FTX's Ryan Salame

Local Restaurateur, political donor, tipster: The many roles of FTX's Ryan Salame The co-chief executive of an FTX unit who told regulators about wrongdoing at the exchange was a big Republican donor. He also bought restaurants. Olde Heritage Tavern, one a few area restaurants owned by Ryan Salame, a top executive at the now-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, in Lenox, Mass., Dec. 16, 2022. Salame has emerged as a central player in the scandal surrounding FTX after he told regulators in the Bahamas, where the exchange was based, that FTX was misappropriating billions in customer funds to prop up an allied…