- Caroline Ellison reportedly wrote Google Doc entries about feeling out of her depth at Alameda.
- The docs revealed her difficult feelings about working with ex Sam Bankman-Fried, the New York Times reported.
- The trading firm “felt too associated with you in a way that was painful,” she wrote of SBF.
Caroline Ellison, who once helmed Alameda Research as its co-CEO, grappled with difficult feelings working at the trading firm of ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, she said in a newly uncovered trove of her own writing, The New York Times reported.
Her writing surfaced in Google Docs tied to the legal case surrounding some of the main figures in the FTX saga. Ellison wrote to Bankman-Fried in one of the notes that Alameda “felt too associated with you in a way that was painful,” the New York Times reported. It’s not clear if Ellison actually sent the letters to him.
She wrote of a sense of being out of her depth in her work environment, and about her relationship with FTX founder known as SBF coloring the experience, the Times reported, citing her entries from 2022.
In one, Ellison vented that Bankman-Fried’s presence made her want to “shrink and become smaller and quieter and defer to others,” the Times reported.
She also wrote that the work experience wore on her to the point that, “At the end of the day I can’t wait to go home and turn off my phone and have a drink and get away from it all,” the Times reported.
The Google Doc entries are some of the records that lawyers involved in the case have been sharing among themselves, the Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter and documents the publication said it reviewed. The Times didn’t specify which lawyers had been sharing the files.
Ellison has previously pleaded guilty to charges stemming from federal prosecutors’ investigation of the FTX collapse, and is cooperating in the case.
A representative for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and an attorney for Ellison did not respond to emailed requests for comment. A representative for Sam Bankman-Fried declined to comment.
Sam Bankman-Fried has been indicted on charges stemming from what prosecutors have alleged is a scheme to defraud FTX’s customers of billions in funds. He had pleaded not guilty, and is scheduled to face trial in October.
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