Caroline Ellison, SBF ex-girlfriend, helped put FTX founder in prison

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Caroline Ellison, former chief executive officer of Alameda Research LLC, center, arrives at court in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images In sentencing FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to a 25-year prison sentence on Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan cited testimony from Caroline Ellison, an ex-girlfriend of the defendant and early recruit into his crypto enterprise. "I keep coming back to Ms. Ellison's testimony that he knew it was wrong," Kaplan said at the sentencing hearing in downtown Manhattan. "He knew it was criminal." Ellison was the star witness for the Department of...