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Welcome to the SBF trial, a CoinDesk Podcast Network newsletter, bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom, where Sam Bankman-Fried will try to stay out of prison.

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We've entered the sole-sucking phase of Sam Bankman-Fried's month-long criminal trial,

the part where an antsy judge Louis Kaplan paces and glares and then lashes out at prosecutors and also defense lawyers

for wasting everyone's time. The government proffered two dud witnesses on Wednesday that

probably did more harm to their working relationship with Judge Kaplan than good to their

borderline airtight fraud case. Ex-FTX lobbyist Eliaura Katz and the paper-pushing Google bureaucrat Corey Gaddis

didn't spend an hour on the stand between them delivering lackluster performances that

peeved the no-nonsense judge.

Late in the day, Kaplan accused prosecutors of calling up a mannequin in Katz, who had spent her morning

testimony mumbling variations of, I don't know anything, and I didn't work at FTX back then,

in response to most every question. Her perplexing statements hinted that Katz would rather

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