00:00 It's Benzinga and here's what's on the block.
00:02 - The judge presiding over the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
00:05 in Manhattan Federal Court lost patience with the lawyers
00:08 from both sides for wasting the court's time
00:10 with unproductive questioning of witnesses.
00:13 The first witness, Eliora Kotz,
00:16 a former in-house lobbyist for FTX US,
00:19 was unable to provide much useful testimony
00:21 because she joined the company
00:22 after most of the documents she was asked about were created.
00:26 The judge criticized the lawyers
00:27 for hauling up Cory Gattis, a Google Records custodian,
00:31 from Texas only to have him authenticate metadata
00:33 for a small number of documents
00:35 where authentication was not even disputed.
00:38 While expressing frustration
00:40 with the unproductive questioning,
00:41 the judge also noted there was fault on both sides
00:44 and the overall trial day was efficiently run
00:46 with four witnesses testifying.
00:48 - For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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