FTX company insiders including Sam Bankman-Fried, former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's father Joseph Bankman, as well as Gary Wang and Nishad Singh have been served subpoenas by bankruptcy administrators.

Set to appear in court in the first days of January to enter a plea deal, Bankman-Fried is "unlikely to receive a favorable deal from prosecutors," argued Mark Kasten, counsel in Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney’s Blockchain and Crypto Assets practice group.  

Commonly known as the “Wolf of Wall Street,” Jordan Belfort said that SBF was “done” and that the implosion of the FTX ecosystem was largely fuelled by the amphetamine use of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, who was arrested alongside SBF.

The guilty pleas made by former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang are “game changers for the case against Sam Bankman-Fried," the former FTX CEO who is now facing multiple criminal charges, Ian McGinley, a partner at Akin Group, told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” on Tuesday.

Caroline Ellison, the former Chief Executive Officer of Alameda Research, pleaded guilty recently, admitting that she was aware of the activities that were taking place from 2019 to 2022.

The goal of this article is to present an easy-to-follow, fact-based timeline highlighting the most important events in the story starting with the very beginning, by briefly covering the reason for the collapse.

The ex-Alameda CEO’s testimony details that she was fully aware from 2019 to 2022, that Alameda Research had access to a special borrowing facility that allowed the company to maintain an unlimited line of credit with zero collateral. The ‘borrowing facility,’ according to Ellison, was FTX’s customer funds.

The latest report by Reuters reveals that Alameda Research could borrow unlimited money from FTX. Moreover, the former FTX CEO – SBF – and former Alameda CEO – Caroline Ellison – agreed to hide this fact from lenders, investors, and customers.

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, told a federal court in New York that she knowingly misled lenders about how much the firm had been borrowing from the collapsed FTX crypto exchange and knew that her actions were wrong.

On Dec. 21, U.S. law enforcement officials from the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) revealed they imposed fraud charges against FTX co-founder Gary Wang and ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison. After Wang’s and Ellison’s surrender announcement, the public has been wondering where FTX’s director of engineering, Nishad Singh, is located and whether or not he has come forward yet.