U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has officially dismissed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a retrial. Bankman-Fried had claimed to have "new evidence" suggesting FTX was solvent at the time of its bankruptcy and accused the Department of Justice of witness intimidation. Judge Kaplan criticized these claims as "baseless" and "absurd conspiracy theories," stating they contradict the factual record.