PANews reported on February 11 that, according to The Block, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX who has been convicted and imprisoned, filed a motion on February 10 requesting the court to grant him permission for a new trial. The motion was filed by his mother in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York as a "personal petition," along with SBF's written statement.

In his filing, he accused the U.S. Department of Justice of concealing evidence and requested that the trial judge, Lewis Kaplan, recuse himself from the case. The motion claims that the SBF is being prosecuted based on false allegations of "stealing FTX customer assets and causing billions of dollars in losses," and alleges that several potential witnesses refused to testify in his defense due to pressure from a "weaponized Department of Justice." The SBF reiterated in its filing that FTX "always had sufficient assets to fully repay customer deposits" and that it was facing a short-term liquidity crisis caused by a bank run, not insolvency. The motion also cites potential testimony from FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame and former head of data science Daniel Chapsky, who did not appear in court, stating that their appearance would refute several of the prosecution's allegations.