The judge presiding over the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried in Manhattan federal court lost patience with the lawyers from both sides for wasting the court's time with unproductive questioning of witnesses. The first witness, Eliora Katz, a former in-house lobbyist for FTX US, was unable to provide much useful testimony because she joined the company after most of the documents she was asked about were created. The judge criticized the lawyers for "hauling up" Cory Gaddis, a Google records custodian, from Texas only to have him authenticate metadata for a small number of documents where authentication was not even disputed. While expressing frustration with the unproductive questioning, the judge also noted there was fault on both sides, and the overall trial day was efficiently run with four witnesses testifying.
