He had had a good system at FTX where he was using algo's to wash trade all coins to manipulate price.
DOJ is letting bankman run his ponzi algos again to be able to afford either/all
- the Defense for the trial
- pay back ftx customers like Tom Brady, etc
- save FACE for crypto as they see crypto being synomous with CBDC and this is a PR move
OR this is just some kind of FOMO, short covering. IDK
Your underlying premise, that FTX can pay back its customers, is wrong. They can't. It was a classic Ponzi scheme.
not with the wash sale algo's and the funds they had. slowly milk retail to cover the next layer in the ponzi.