Former co-CEO of FTX announced 'new role' as inmate in federal prison on LinkedIn

There are a few too many endorsements on this one. Former FTX executive Ryan Salame shared a tongue-in-cheek update to LinkedIn ahead of his seven-and-a-half year prison sentence, which began on Friday. Salame, who was the former co-CEO of FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary and in company founder Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in May. Former FTX executive Ryan Salame shared a tongue-in-cheek update to LinkedIn ahead of his seven-and-a-half year prison sentence, which began on Friday He'll be serving his sentence at FCI Cumberland, a medium-security federal prison in Maryland. Salame, who was the former co-CEO of FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary and in company founder, Sam Bankman-Fried 's inner circle, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in May He'll be serving his sentence at FCI Cumberland, a medium-security federal prison in Maryland Salame's post was met with thousands of comments, many commending and ridiculing the ex-executive on his transparent post Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison In an interview with the New York Times, Salame also said he wasn’t guilty of the crimes he was accused of, claiming that lawyers at FTX had approved those donations, and that he had filed his guilty plea based on bad legal advice.