Golden Finance reported that documents from SBF's defense lawyers and the Department of Justice (DOJ) showed that a document filed by the SBF defense team on Wednesday asked Lewis Kaplan, the judge in charge of the case, to allow defense lawyers to ask SBF about certain aspects of FTX's operations and how the company's lawyers were involved in these decisions. These issues include FTX's use of automatic deletion policies for Signal and Slack messages, the opening of North Dimension and its bank accounts, FTX and Alameda Research's loans to its executives, and other issues. The document stated that the Department of Justice tried to argue that some or all of these issues proved criminal intent. The defense tried to argue that SBF had no intention of defrauding customers or investors, and that some of his decisions to run the company depended on the advice of lawyers. The judge allowed the defense team to present a limited version with permission, which was the permission sought by Mark Cohen's lawyer in the document filed on Wednesday.

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