Frank Carone wants his federal bribery trial to start in August, an unusually quick timeline for a case this size, and the judge overseeing it told his lawyers flat out she doesn’t buy that they’ll be ready. The hearing, first reported by amNewYork, played out July 1 in Brooklyn federal court.

Carone’s attorneys pushed for an August 24 trial start. Defendants almost never do this. Federal law guarantees a trial within 70 days of arrest, but in complicated, high-profile cases both sides usually agree to pause that clock so everyone can gather evidence and show up prepared. Carone’s team went the other way and asked to go fast.

“I don’t think that’s a real date,” U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto told them after they confirmed they wanted August 24.