They probably won’t make a whit of difference, but the two amicus briefs filed this week in support of Sam Bankman-Fried’s ongoing legal defense sure make for interesting reading. On September 13, Sam and his lawyers filed his appeal, in which they argued that he deserves at the very least a new trial, if not his conviction vacated in its entirety. As I previewed, they argued that Sam did not get a fair trial a year ago, and that federal prosecutors were colluding with both the new executives running his bankrupt company and with Sullivan & Cromwell, the debtors’ attorneys who had represented Sam and FTX prior to the company’s bankruptcy filing in November 2022. Furthermore, Sam’s attorneys argued that the prosecutors and the debtors were given much more than the benefit of the doubt by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in his Manhattan courtroom.