Key Takeaways
- Caroline Ellison was moved from federal prison to community confinement after about 11 months served.
- She remains under federal custody with an early release date of February 20, 2026.
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Caroline Ellison, the former boss of Alameda Research and a key figure in the FTX collapse, relocated from a federal prison to community confinement, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Ellison was originally sentenced to two years in prison last September for her role in the FTX and Alameda fraud and began serving her sentence shortly afterward. Her transfer, which occurred in October, means she is now in community confinement, either under home confinement or residing in a halfway house.
Ellison is scheduled for release in February 2026, nearly nine months earlier than her original term.
As CEO of Alameda Research, Ellison managed trading operations and capital allocation at the firm and acknowledged that billions of dollars in customer funds from FTX were improperly used and hidden through falsified balance sheets provided to lenders.
After pleading guilty to multiple fraud and conspiracy counts, Ellison cooperated with prosecutors and testified that her former boyfriend and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried led the fraud. Bankman-Fried is now serving a 25-year prison term.