Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison, former FTX and Alameda executives, enter plea to DOJ allegations.

According to Williams, Wang and Ellison are both assisting the Justice Department's probe. Williams didn't mention the specific counts that Wang and Ellison were facing or the ones to which they both admitted guilt.

The SEC accused both Wang and Ellison with misleading FTX investors in a separate transaction late on Wednesday, claiming they were both participating with its probe and revealing both had reached agreements with the SEC.

The 28-year-old Caroline Ellison oversaw FTX's affiliate Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund. Sam Bankman-Fried, a former CEO of FTX, and Ellison formerly collaborated at Jane Street.

Bankman-Fried shared a residence with Gary Wang, 29, during their time as undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2019, Wang and Bankman-Fried co-founded FTX.

After receiving approval from the Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs, a judge on Wednesday authorized Bankman-extradition Fried's to the United States. Sam Bankman-extradition, Fried's and transportation to American custody were also verified by Williams.

The Bahamas Royal Police detained Bankman-Fried on December 12 night. Bankman-Fried was really being detained at the Fox Hill prison in New Providence, Bahamas, up till Wednesday.

A Bankman-Fried representative declined to speak.

“As I said last week, this investigation is very much ongoing and is moving very quickly,” he said. “I also said that last week‘s announcement would not be our last. And let me be clear once again: Neither is today’s.”

Williams urged anyone who had engaged in improper behavior at FTX or Alameda to come forward. He answered, Our patience is not endless.

Yahoo Finance contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, but received no response.

SEC allegations

The SEC's lawsuit claims that between 2019 and 2022, Ellison advanced a conspiracy to manipulate the price of FTX's token, FTT, by acquiring substantial amounts on the public markets to help bolster its price, under Bankman-supervision. Fried's

By doing this, FTX was able to use FTT as security for loans to Alameda that FTX had taken out using the assets of its clients. The consequence, according to the SEC complaint, allowed Alameda's financial statement value to be exaggerated, deceiving shareholders about FTX's risk. By the time of publication, the SEC had not responded to Yahoo Finance's request for clarification.

According to the SEC complaint, monies from FTX customers were used to finance personal real estate acquisitions, loans to FTX management, and Alameda's trading activity.

The platform's software technology that permitted Alameda to drain FTX customer funds, according to the SEC, was written by Wang while serving as FTX's CTO. According to the SEC's lawsuit, Ellison used the diverted money at Alameda for trading activities.

The complaint claims that Bankman-Fried, with the consent of Ellison and Wang, “sent hundreds of millions of dollars more in FTX customer monies to Alameda” even after it became evident that FTX could not make its consumers entire.

The SEC wants Ellison and Wang to pay fines and be prevented from serving as corporate officials or directors. Additionally, an order is requested to prevent the plaintiffs from either directly or indirectly taking part in the creation of it as well as cryptocurrency securities.

Both parties have achieved agreements, according to the SEC, subject to court approval.

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