Much like his former FTX colleagues that became government witnesses, Gary Wang provided “outstanding” assistance to federal prosecutors building a case against the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
But the ex-coding chief at the platform, who is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 20 for his own role in the FTX collapse, appears to have an edge. He has created “tools” to help the US government detect other instances of fraud, prosecutors said as they pushed for a lenient sentence for Wang.