Judge Rejects Sam Bankman-Fried's New Trial Request, Slams Claims as 'Wildly Conspiratorial'

Judge Rejects Sam Bankman-Fried's New Trial Request, Slams Claims as 'Wildly Conspiratorial'

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday denied former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s pro se motion for a new trial, calling the arguments “baseless on multiple independently sufficient levels” and rejecting what the judge described as a calculated effort to relitigate facts the court had already considered and excluded. Bankman-Fried filed the motion in February, representing himself and arguing that newly discovered evidence warranted a retria…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s retrial bid rejected by court

The efforts by former Sam Bankman-Fried to overturn or reopen his fraud conviction have suffered another setback after a US federal court rejected his request for a new trial. The ruling reinforces his earlier conviction tied to the collapse of FTX , which remains one of the largest financial fraud...

Judge Denied SBF Retrial Bid

Key Takeaways: There was a rejection of the request for a retrial filed by Sam Bankman-Fried by a federal judge who ruled there were no valid claims of “new evidence” and testimony from the witnesses The court ruled the supposed witnesses were not newly discovered and that some claims were speculative and baseless This is another blow to the ongoing appeals case of Bankman Fried and will strengthen the guilty verdict regarding the fraud case in…

Judge Shoots Down Sam Bankman-Fried's Bid for New Trial

The judge dismissed the FTX founder’s claims that potential witnesses faced "government threats and retaliation" as "wildly conspiratorial.”