Overview
- The U.S. Marshals Service sold Anthropic shares seized from Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh in 2025 to existing Anthropic investors, according to multiple reports.
- Government and company officials have not disclosed the sale price, the buyers, or the exact sale date, and the Marshals Service declined to discuss the transaction.
- Analysts offer widely different estimates of what the government received because Anthropic’s private valuation jumped sharply in 2025–2026, producing headline ranges from roughly $250 million to over $1 billion for a 2025 sale and theoretical current values in the billions.
- Business filings and reporting show no identified transfer of those forfeiture funds to the FTX bankruptcy estate by mid‑2026, and victim representatives are pressing the Justice Department and the estate to coordinate payments.
- Forfeiture proceeds follow a separate federal process under Title 21 U.S.C. § 853 that can use remission rather than bankruptcy claims, and that legal split helps explain the delay and the risk that money meant for creditors could be held up or distributed differently than estate recoveries.