纽约的一名联邦法官周二否认了这一说法山姆·班克曼·弗里德一次新的审判，驳回了他的主张，即有新发现的证人可以提供无罪的证词。
班克曼-弗里德是证明…有罪策划了历史上最大的金融诈骗案之一起因于FTX秘密交易所的崩溃。他正在服25年徒刑。
34岁的班克曼-弗里德向地方法院法官争辩说，有新的证人的证词可以保证对他进行新的审判。法官称这一主张毫无根据。
“例如，没有一个证人是‘新发现的’。”班克曼-弗里德在审判前就认识这三个人，据说还知道他希望他们作证时会说些什么。他本可以获得或至少试图迫使他们作证。但他两者都没有，”法官刘易斯·卡普兰说。
卡普兰说，没有证据表明证人会支持班克曼-弗里德的说法，即FTX没有破产，他的受害者都在破产程序中得到了充分补偿。
卡普兰说:“这项动议似乎是拯救他名誉的计划的一部分，该计划是班克曼-弗里德在FTX宣布破产后但在他被起诉前策划并承诺要写的。”
班克曼-弗里德被指控犯有七项欺诈、共谋和洗钱罪行，联邦检察官称这是“美国历史上最大的金融欺诈案之一”。
检察官表示，他使用加密货币交易平台FTX(他创办的公司)上的客户存款来弥补他的对冲基金的损失，偿还贷款和购买奢华的房地产，以及其他个人支出。
陪审团发现他在2023年的联邦欺诈和阴谋中的所有指控都是有罪的试验.
2024年，卡普兰判处他25年监禁，并下令没收政府可用于赔偿受害者的110亿美元。
Judge denies Sam Bankman-Fried new trial after financial fraud conviction
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday deniedSam Bankman-Frieda new trial, rejecting his claim that there are newly discovered witnesses who would give exculpatory testimony.
Bankman-Fried wasconvictedof masterminding one of the largest financial frauds in history stemming from the collapse of the crypto-exchange FTX. He is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Bankman-Fried, 34, had argued to the district court judge that there are new witnesses whose testimony would warrant a new trial for him.The judge called the claim baseless.
"None of the witnesses, for example, is 'newly discovered.' Bankman-Fried well before trial knew all three of them and purportedly knew also what he hoped they would say were they to testify. He could have obtained or at least sought to compel their testimony. But he did neither," Judge Lewis Kaplan said.
Kaplan said there is no evidence the witnesses would have supported Bankman-Fried's claims that FTX was not insolvent and that his victims all were compensated fully in bankruptcy proceedings.
"This motion appears to be one part of a plan to rescue his reputation that Bankman-Fried hatched and even committed to writing after FTX declared bankruptcy but before he was indicted," Kaplan said.s
Bankman-Fried was charged with seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering in what federal prosecutors have described as "one of the biggest financial frauds in American history."
Prosecutors said he used customer deposits on the cryptocurrency trading platform FTX, the company he founded, to cover losses at his hedge fund, pay off loans and buy lavish real estate, among other personal expenses.
A jury found him guilty on all charges in his 2023 federal fraud and conspiracytrial.
In 2024, Kaplan sentenced him to 25 years in prison and ordered that he forfeit $11 billion that the government can use to compensate victims.
