Sam Bankman-Fried requests new trial claiming FTX had $16.5 billion surplus in 2022, but does it matter?

Sam Bankman-Fried filed a motion for a new trial on Feb. 10, advancing a claim that reframes FTX’s collapse not as fraud-driven insolvency but as a recoverable liquidity crisis.

The motion invokes Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which permits courts to grant new trials when “the interest of justice so requires,” typically when newly discovered evidence surfaces or fundamental trial errors taint the verdict.

and FTX’s courtroom record tell different stories because they measure…