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A federal judge has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's bid for a new trial, dealing a blow to the imprisoned FTX founder's efforts to overturn his fraud conviction. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a scathing denial Tuesday, dismissing Bankman-Fried's claims that there were new witnesses whose testimony warranted a new trial. "None of the witnesses, for example, is 'newly discovered,'" Kaplan wrote in his ruling, noting that Bankman-Fried "could have obtained or at least sought to compel their...