Last time I wrote about Sam Bankman Fried’s ongoing effort to overturn his conviction for fraud and conspiracy , I wrote, “Anyone willing to keep trying—or to pay lawyers to keep trying for them—can always do more legal busywork in pursuit of a favorable decision, all the way up to the Supreme Court if they want.” And he has been doing that. Not just by paying lawyers to do it for him, either. He wrote his latest filings himself, with the help of his lawyer parents, according to Bloomberg , and they were rejected by Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial that led to his conviction. Bloomberg quotes the judge as saying SBF’s self-authored motion, “appears to be one part of a plan to rescue his reputation that Bankman-Fried hatched and even committed to writing after FTX declared bankruptcy but before he was indicted.” That “plan” the judge seems to be talking about was a piece of evidence from 2022, released by the prosecution in 2024 .…