Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame has asked a judge to delay his surrender date to a federal prison by about two months to begin serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

Salame’s lawyers filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Oct. 9 asking that he be allowed to begin serving his sentence on Dec. 7 instead of Oct. 11. Judge Lewis Kaplan granted Salame an extension in July after he reported being attacked by a German Shepherd in June.

Medical information regarding Salame’s request to delay his surrender date was kept confidential, but included an affidavit from a Virginia doctor. According to the motion, the former FTX executive was required to receive “continuous medical treatment” before he can go to prison.

Salame pleaded guilty in September 2023 to making illegal political contributions and defrauding the Federal Election Commission. That was about a year after FTX collapsed. Salame is the second person to receive a prison sentence, following the conviction of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison received a two-year sentence after Bankman-Fried and Salame.

Salame returned to his X account after being sentenced to 90 months in prison in May 2024, and has been posting regularly about US politics. He claimed that prison would be an “exciting” experience and that he was “honestly not worried.”

Salame’s partner, Michelle Bond, was not mentioned. Bond was charged in a separate case related to campaign finance violations and has pleaded not guilty.

It remains unclear whether Judge Kaplan will respond to Salame’s request to postpone the deadline. At the hearing on September 12, the judge reportedly expressed disappointment with Salame’s actions.

Nishad Singh and Gary Wang are the latest FTX executives named in the same indictment as Bankman-Fried, Ellison and Salame, and are set to appear in court on October 30 and November 20.Both could face years in prison.

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