We’ve documented countless examples of money being spent frivolously despite the sequester, and this is where they plan to make cuts?

(AFP) — The highly anticipated New York trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law could be delayed because his court-appointed lawyers have been hit by US budget cuts, they said Monday.

Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan called the revelation that a package of US federal government cuts known as the sequester could imperil a start to the trial this year “stunning.”

Martin Cohen, an attorney for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, allegedly a senior propagandist in the Al-Qaeda network, said he doubted he could be ready by Kaplan’s suggested trial date in September.

“The lawyers for the federal defenders are to be furloughed for five-and-a-half weeks,” he told a hearing, saying it would be “very difficult to be ready for September.”

Cohen suggested a January date for the trial as an alternative.

Kaplan said it was “extremely troublesome to contemplate the possibility of a case of this nature being delayed because of sequestration.”