Ryan Salame’s childhood home. It is one of two houses in Sandisfield owned by the Lenox Eats LLC managed by Ryan Salame.
Sandisfield is Ryan Salame’s hometown. Downtown consists of little more than a bridge over the Farmington River and a couple of businesses. Ryan Salame, the co-chief executive of FTX’s Bahamas entity, called FTX Digital Markets, is a Sandisfield native and owns a half-dozen Lenox properties, mostly restaurants.
Megan Smigal owns the Farmington River General Store in Sandisfield.
Brad Curry is the superintendent of roads in Sandisfield.
Barbara Colorio owns the New Boston Inn in Sandisfield.
Ryan Salame, 14, fourth from left, shown after a martial arts training and tournament in South Korea. Salame had studied TaeKwonDo since he was five.
Ryan Salame was listed in multiple honor rolls at Monument Mountain Regional High School, as well as in middle school.
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Sandisfield native Ryan Salame, 29, is an international cryptocurrency tycoon based in the Bahamas who flipped on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a court filing.
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Heather Bellow can be reached at hbellow@berkshireeagle.com or 413-329-6871.
A man who grew up on Benedict Road in Pittsfield, son of a plumber, now leads the bankrupt FTX Trading Ltd., giving Berkshire County a second connection to the largest cryptocurrency collapse in history.
Potential ripple effects, or worse, on Ryan Salame’s multiple restaurants and real estate holdings in Lenox remain unclear, as his local business ventures are shielded in a half-dozen limited liability corporations registered in Massachusetts.
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Heather Bellow, a member of the investigations team, joined The Eagle in 2017. She is based in the South Berkshire County bureau in Great Barrington. Her work has appeared in newspapers across the U.S.
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