A federal judge sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years in prison in Manhattan Tuesday, according to a report from Bloomberg. 

The ruling falls just above the government’s request of five to seven years in prison. Salame’s team earlier this month asked Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial last fall, for 18 months in prison. 

Salame in September pleaded guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business. By acting as a “straw donor,” the government says, Salame helped “pump more than $100 million dollars in illegal contributions through the US political…

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