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Former FTX exec’s domestic partner indicted on campaign finance charges.

Ryan Salame is due to begin his seven-year prison sentence next month, but now he claims prosecutors reneged on an agreement to drop a campaign finance investigation into his partner, Michelle Bond, in exchange for his guilty plea.

Charges filed today in the SDNY accuse the two of faking a $400k consulting payment from FTX to fund her unsuccessful run for Congress in 2022.

MICHELLE BOND, the defendant, and her romantic partner (“CC-1 “) illegally funded BOND’s campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022. In particular, CC-1- then a high-level executive at a now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange (the “Exchange”)— arranged for a sham $400,000 payment from the Exchange to BOND, which BOND then used almost entirely to fund her campaign illegally.
Screenshot: US v. Michelle Bond indictment (PDF)
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