Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider
- Attorneys in Sam Bankman-Fried's Manhattan trial were chewed out by the judge on Wednesday.
- Judge Lewis Kaplan lost his patience over two witnesses who gave useless testimony.
- Kaplan was particularly frustrated that one of the witnesses had traveled from Texas to participate.
The judge presiding over Sam Bankman-Fried's trial lost his patience with lawyers on both sides in Manhattan federal court on Monday, calling the questioning of some of their witnesses a "waste" of valuable time.
The blistering comments from Judge Lewis Kaplan came after two witnesses were excused after having been on the stand for less than 45 minutes each – including both direct and cross-examination. Both witnesses gave few productive answers to questions asked of them by the government and the defense.