{"id":93431,"date":"2026-01-22T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=93431"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:00:18","slug":"former-alameda-research-head-caroline-ellison-to-be-released-on-january-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/former-alameda-research-head-caroline-ellison-to-be-released-on-january-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alameda Research Head Caroline Ellison to Be Released on January 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bop.gov\/inmateloc\/\">will be released from custody<\/a> on January 28, after spending about a year in detention.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, she is currently in a halfway house in New York. Such facilities are used to transition inmates before their final release, helping them find employment and prepare for life outside.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, Ellison was transferred to the center from a federal prison in Connecticut. She <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/former-alameda-research-ceo-caroline-ellison-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison\">began<\/a> serving her two-year sentence there in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison led Alameda Research and was in a relationship with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/greed-and-recklessness-why-the-ftx-collapse-is-being-likened-to-the-2008-crisis\">The exchange&#8217;s collapse<\/a> occurred in November 2022 due to liquidity issues and misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, Ellison <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/caroline-ellison-admits-deliberate-misrepresentation-to-alameda-creditors-about-the-exchanges-loan-amount\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to seven charges, including fraud and conspiracy. She entered a plea deal and testified against Bankman-Fried. In court, the former Alameda head confirmed she acted on his instructions, and the trading firm had unlimited access to FTX client funds.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried himself <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison\">was sentenced<\/a> to 25 years in prison in March 2025, with an obligation to repay $11 billion in losses. In January of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/trump-rules-out-pardoning-ftx-founder\">ruled out<\/a> the possibility of a pardon for the FTX founder.<\/p>\n<p>Other top FTX executives, Gary Wang and Nishad Singh, also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sentencing-dates-set-for-former-ftx-executives\">cooperated<\/a> with authorities and avoided prison time. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/enforcement-litigation\/litigation-releases\/lr-26450\">seeks<\/a> to bar all three, including Ellison, from holding executive positions in public companies.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November 2025, FTX representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ftx-withdraws-controversial-motion-on-problematic-countries\">withdrew<\/a> a petition to restrict payments for users from 49 countries, including Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, will be released from custody on January 28, after spending about a year in detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Caroline Ellison to be released from custody on January 28 after a year.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1435,1236],"class_list":["post-93431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-alameda-research","tag-ftx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"231","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Caroline Ellison to be released from custody on January 28 after a year.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93433,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93431\/revisions\/93433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}