U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan declined former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial after the former mogul brought forth new evidence that he said showed that the now bankrupt crypto exchange was solvent. In an order filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Kaplan, whom Bankman-Fried himself had asked to be recused, criticized his new evidence, calling it "baseless." Last week, Bankman-Fried withdrew that motion for a new trial and said that he didn't think he would get a "fair hearing" from Judge Kaplan. An appeal is still pending. In his original ... (full story)