Former FTX executive Ryan Salame was given hours to report to prison Friday, ordered to surrender after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan questioned his ongoing dog-bite narrative.

Earlier this week, Salame asked for more time to receive medical treatment, stating that he is still recovering from injuries sustained alongside a dog bite in June. When he first asked the court for a postponement months ago, that request was granted, delaying Salame’s scheduled surrender.

In U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s two-page ruling, he wrote that Salame has already “benefited from extremely generous postponements.” Questioning the veracity of prior statements made, he ruled that Salame must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons no later than 2pm ET Friday.

The government opposed Salame’s most recent request, arguing that the former executive appeared “to have substantially recovered” from his canine encounter at a court conference last month. The treatment and surgery he now seeks “seems largely cosmetic and nonurgent,” they added, stating he looked “unimpaired” during a recent interview with Tucker Carlson.

Although posted Thursday, the videotaped Carlson interview appeared to be several weeks old, as Salame discussed that he was considering plans to appeal his plea after Feds pursued charges against his partner, Michelle Bond—that saga played out in court in August. He also speculated about the

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Author: André Beganski