December 21, Southern District of New York (SDNY) , Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reveal fraud charges against FTX co-founder Gary Wang and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison I made it After Wang and Ellison’s surrender announcement, the public wondered where his director of engineering at FTX, Nishad Singh, was and if he was still coming forward.
Following Ellison and Wang’s guilty pleas, all eyes are on two more top FTX executives
from SDNY Federal Court, CFTC and SEC As reported by FTX, founder Zixiao (Gary) Wang and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Ellison and Wang are working with law enforcement officials in a plea bargain to seek a lesser sentence, according to U.S. Attorney Damien Williams.
In addition to Wednesday’s announcement, Williams urged others involved in FTX misconduct to report as soon as possible. “(Law enforcement) is moving quickly and our patience is not forever,” emphasized Williams, one of the people not mentioned in the recent indictment against Ellison and Wang. FTX’s Director of Engineering, he was Nishad Singh.
In 2017, Singh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, according to public documents. After graduating from college, he worked at Facebook for a total of five months in 2017. Prior to serving as Director of Engineering at FTX, Singh was Director of Engineering at Alameda Research.
It was well known that Singh was a very close member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) inner circle and was accused of cheating in connection with the collapse of FTX. For example, reports say Singh was part of SBF’s secret Signal chat channel called “Wirefraud.”
Matthew Cranston, US correspondent for the Australian Financial Review said: “[AFR] is the founder of FTX, Sam Bankman- In addition to Fried and Zixiao ‘Gary’ Wang and FTX engineer Nishad, Singh and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison joined Signal’s chat group in the hope that the information would remain hidden.
Singh also reportedly became a significant contributor to the Democratic Party of the United States, donating $8 million during the 2022 midterm elections. Singh said he was the 34th largest Democratic donor and his former boss, SBF, under George Soros, he was the second largest Democratic donor. According to the investigation, Singh, along with SBF and Wang, was responsible for FTX’s codebase, wallet, and trading engine.
Bloomberg reported that Singh “created code to hide Alameda Research’s ballooning debt.” In the same report, the CFTC detailed that the majority of FTX’s debt is hidden in a sub-account called the “Korea Account.” This account was reportedly used by SBF, Ellison, Wang, and Singh to hide funds. Singh was also close to another FTX inner circle member named Ramnik Arora.Singh was one of nine housemates who lived with SBF. He said it was his “dream job,” but I haven’t heard from the former FTX engineering director since FTX collapsed. Singh and his close friend at SBF and his head of product and investor relations, Arora, was also an important tool for the FTX machine. Arora is described in the report as SBF’s “key lieutenant”, and sources say he was a key executive who strengthened his FTX relationship with Sequoia Capital and other investors. .
US attorney Damian Williams said Wednesday that the FTX investigation is still ongoing and more announcements will be made in the near future. It seems that people who cheat on FTX are not left unexposed.
What are your thoughts on the fact that FTX’s Director of Engineering, Nishad Singh, has yet to hear from anyone? Does he expect any other high ranking FTX execs to come forward? Let us know your thoughts on the matter in the comments section below.
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