Singh, 29, testified a year ago at the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and said he was “shocked and horrified” when he saw the extent of the fraud behind the once-famous and seemingly pioneering company.

Sentencing, Singh said he was “overwhelmed with remorse” for his role in the fraud.

“I strayed so far from my values ​​and words cannot express how sorry I am,” he said.

Bankman-Fried was convicted last November and is serving a 25-year sentence.

Before Singh’s sentence was announced, defense attorney Andrew Goldstein urged that his client not be given prison time, saying that Singh did not know about the billions of dollars stolen from clients and investors until two months before FTX will collapse and fall into bankruptcy in November 2022, just weeks before the key crisis. The executives were arrested.

Goldstein, a former longtime Manhattan federal prosecutor, said the leniency would encourage future cooperators in other criminal cases to come forward.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos credited Singh with providing information just weeks after the fraud was publicly revealed, saying it helped prosecutors learn about crimes they otherwise would never have uncovered, including his.

Roos said, for example, that Singh informed prosecutors about campaign finance violations that occurred when FTX executives made tens of millions of dollars in donations to political candidates.

The prosecutor also said Singh revealed private conversations with Bankman-Fried that strengthened the government’s case and allowed it to more quickly bring charges against several people.

Singh provided prosecutors with “documentary evidence that the government did not have and probably never would have had,” Roos said.