June 24, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge Wednesday scheduled a November trial for crypto-lobbyist Michelle Bond, as she seeks to beat charges alleging she agreed with her husband, jailed former FTX executive Ryan Salame, to take illegal campaign cash from the bankrupt exchange.
June 17, 2026
A New York federal judge Wednesday refused to throw out an indictment accusing crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond of campaign finance crimes, rejecting her argument that prosecutors previously promised her husband, a former FTX executive, that his guilty plea would mean she's in the clear.
November 20, 2025
Former interim Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon told a federal judge Thursday that she never promised crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond any kind of no-prosecute deal as the government negotiated a guilty plea with Bond's husband, former FTX executive Ryan Salame.
July 28, 2025
A Manhattan federal judge said Monday he will investigate an allegation by crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond that she was charged with campaign finance crimes despite a promise that a guilty plea by her husband, former FTX executive Ryan Salame, would leave her in the clear.
June 27, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved a preliminary injunction Friday against former FTX executive Ryan Salame to prevent him from dissipating as much as $6 million in assets he is accused of taking from the cryptocurrency exchange prior to its 2022 collapse.
May 08, 2025
Attorney and cryptocurrency lobbyist Michelle Bond, the wife of jailed former FTX executive Ryan Salame, told a Manhattan federal judge that her campaign finance case should be tossed because prosecutors broke a promise that she wouldn't be charged if her husband pled guilty.
April 22, 2025
The FTX Recovery Trust urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to enjoin the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame from spending additional money that the trust said was fraudulently taken from the company before its bankruptcy filing, saying Michelle Bond has spent more than $600,000 since mid-December on legal fees, luxury vacations and credit card bills.
March 20, 2025
New York federal prosecutors Thursday opposed a request from attorney and crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond to extend filing deadlines for pre-trial motions in her criminal case until June, saying Bond's inability to access her assets due to bankruptcy proceedings involving her FTX-affiliated husband is not enough to warrant a delay.
January 01, 2025
The coming year's main event in New York courts is an expected sex-trafficking trial for hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, while the political reascendancy of Donald Trump will echo in halls of the judiciary as the president-elect litigates to quash his own conviction.
August 30, 2024
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame is no longer seeking to vacate his guilty plea that he says Manhattan federal prosecutors induced with a false promise to halt a campaign finance probe into his partner Michelle Bond, though his claims that they broke their word will still be litigated before two different judges.