Daniel Silva Quoted in DL News

June, 2024 - Los Angeles, California

FTX convict Ryan Salame has posted on X every day since sentencing. Lawyers say that’s ‘unusual’

By: Ben Weiss

June 4, 2024

Salame’s recent emergence on X will likely have fewer legal consequences than if he had sounded off before his sentencing, according to Daniel Silva, an attorney at the law firm of Buchalter and a former Department of Justice prosecutor.

If the government found anything Salame said on X especially objectionable, prosecutors would have to move to dismiss his conviction, strike his sentence, submit another pending indictment, and proceed with discovery and potentially trial.

“I’m not sure why they would want to do that,” Silva told DL News.

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