Ryan Salame, FTX Executive, Gets Seven and a Half Year Prison Sentence NYT: Technology By: David Yaffe-Bellany 28 May 2024 at 14:14 Ryan Salame, the head of FTXβs subsidiary in the Bahamas, was the first of Sam Bankman-Friedβs deputies to be sentenced since the crypto exchange collapsed in November 2022. Β© Jefferson Siegel for The New York TimesRyan Salame, a trusted lieutenant of Sam Bankman-Fried, leaving federal court in Manhattan after his sentencing on Tuesday.