Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has asked a court if he could start his prison time in December instead of in a few days in order to get medical care after being injured by a dog over the summer.
Salame's lawyer asked the court to push back serving his sentence date from Oct. 11 to Dec. 7, according to a filing posted on Wednesday. His lawyer said the government disagrees with their request.
"On behalf of Ryan Salame, we respectfully request that the Court continue the date for Salame to voluntarily surrender to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to begin serving his sentence from Friday, October 11, 2024 to Friday, December 7, 2024, so that he may receive continuing medical treatment deemed necessary by his treating physician to recover from the injuries sustained on or about June 29, 2024," his lawyer said.
Salame previously asked for his prison time to be pushed back from August to October to get urgent surgery following the incident with the dog, which the court granted. Salame's lawyers said he saw a doctor on July 3 and was evaluated "after sustaining a dog-bite injury to the face," according to a previous filing.
Salame, previously the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges last year. Salame pled guilty in September to conspiring to make unlawful political contributions as well as conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. He worked closely with former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried was sentenced in March to almost 25 years in prison following a criminal fraud trial late last year.
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