Il legislatore statunitense accusa la SEC di aver abusato dei suoi poteri

• The US House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee began an inquiry into the SEC’s handling of the FTX investigation in February. 
• Il comitato ha richiesto ulteriori informazioni sulle accuse mosse contro Bankman-Fried in una lettera indirizzata al presidente della SEC Gary Gensler.

• I repubblicani nel comitato hanno accusato la SEC di ostacolare le sue indagini sul caso. 

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Durante un udito sulla supervisione della SEC giovedì 22 giugno, il presidente della sottocommissione per la supervisione e le indagini della Camera degli Stati Uniti, Bill Huizenga del Michigan, ha criticato la Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) per non aver fornito la documentazione adeguata in merito all'arresto e al processo dell'ex criptomiliardario Sam Bankman-fritto. Il 31enne è stato l'importante fondatore e CEO dell'exchange di criptovalute in bancarotta FTX.

Il rappresentante Huizenga ha criticato la SEC per come l'agenzia ha gestito l'indagine FTX e per non aver fornito documenti sufficienti sul caso come precedentemente richiesto. A febbraio, il sottocomitato per la supervisione e le indagini della Camera degli Stati Uniti chiesto the SEC to provide documents for the committee to better understand the charges against Bankman-Fried. However, Huizenga claimed that “100% of the documents” provided by the SEC were publicly available.

#WATCH: @RepHuizenga at today's hearing:

"Under Chair Gensler, the SEC’s unresponsiveness to the Committee’s requests has been extremely slow and limited in comparison to that of previous chairs."

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Huizenga also slammed the SEC for missing a deadline of February 24 to provide documents that purportedly posed “serious questions about the SEC’s process and cooperation with the Department of Justice” in relation to the Bankman-Fried case. He added that the documents provided by the SEC were simply public briefings on “how the SEC and the Justice Department worked together” in Bankman-Fried’s case. 

Suprisingly, today’s hearing escalated into a partisan argument over whether the SEC ought to have responded to the committee’s request for the document faster. 

Il membro del Congresso John Rose ha interrogato Megan Barbero, consigliere generale della SEC, sul motivo per cui la SEC impiega tempo per rispondere alle richieste. Ricordiamo che l'exchange di criptovalute Coinbase ha recentemente lanciato un'accusa simile contro l'agenzia. Coinbase ha presentato una richiesta al tribunale affinché la SEC risponda alla petizione presentata l'anno scorso sulle politiche crittografiche. Alcuni dei legislatori hanno accusato la commissione di evitare deliberatamente di fornire chiarezza.

Representative Huizenga told Barbero that today’s hearing “could have and should have been avoided.” However, he said the committee had no choice since the SEC continued to be “uncooperative and unresponsive.”

Responding to Huizenga, Barbero argued that disclosing such documents to the committee was less difficult as they “do not require a commission vote”. However, she explained that the SEC must weigh Congress’s desire for information with the need to avoid jeopardizing an upcoming trial against Bankman-Fried, which is set to begin in October.

Secondo lei,

The challenge here is balancing the concerns that the committee staff has identified as the priority of the commission’s action memo, which is the very document that contains the information that could prejudice our civil enforcement action and the parallel criminal investigation.

Thursday’s hearing shows the growing frustration of lawmakers about the SEC’s enforcement actions against crypto firms. Interestingly, Republicans appear to have grown tired of SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s time at the SEC.

Gensler’s leadership of the SEC has seen the agency take bold enforcement actions against several crypto companies, and Republicans believe Gensler’s action would hinder innovation.

Due legislatori repubblicani recentemente ha proposto un disegno di legge che ristrutturerebbe la SEC e licenzierebbe Gensler dal suo ruolo. Tuttavia, sembra improbabile che un tale disegno di legge venga approvato.

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