[U.S. Prosecutor Denies Pressuring FTX Executive to Plead Guilty] U.S. prosecutor Danielle Sassoon testified on Thursday at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, denying allegations that she pressured former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame to plead guilty. Salame had previously admitted to campaign finance violations and operating an unlicensed money transmission business, resulting in a sentence of over seven years in prison. His guilty plea is believed to have impacted the criminal case against his former partner Michelle Bond. Bond's legal team accused the prosecution of 'coercing' Salame into cooperating with the investigation. In her testimony, Sassoon stated that if Salame pleaded guilty, the prosecution 'might not continue investigating his actions,' but she emphasized that the government had neither misled nor coerced Salame into pleading guilty, asserting that her role was not to 'trap or trick others into pleading guilty.'