The Watsons, a prominent Staten Island family, has survived a close brush with financial ruin; its assets are now almost three times greater than what they were before their problems commenced.

A. financial ruin; its assets are now almost three times greater than
B. financial ruin; its assets are now almost three times more than
C. financial ruin; their assets are now almost threefold
D. financial ruin; now with threefold the assets
E. financial ruin; now with assets three times greater than
OA A

as Ron Purewall says,:

if you are talking about an increase in a single statistic, you use GREATER. If you are counting things, and NOT referring to 'the number' or 'the population' or any other single statistic, you use MORE - always as an adjective or adverb.(the color is mine)
The population of Filipinos is greater than it was 10 years ago.
There are more Filipinos than there were 10 years ago.

and according to this rule, if the sentence is written like:
it has now asset almost three times more than...;
or
it has now almost three times more assets than....
the above sentences should be correct! is it so?
Please shed some lights on my doubts, Ron!