Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried withdrew his motion for a new trial for now in a letter to New York Judge Lewis Kaplan, adding that he didn't think he would get a "fair hearing" from the judge. In a letter filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the former business mogul said he had been focused on responding to Kaplan's previous questions, including whether his attorney wrote his Rule 33 motion — a request for a new trial. "As I have had to focus on responding to these questions rather than drafting a response to the prosecution's opposition, and because I do not believe ... (full story)