1/ @SECGov staff met with @SBF_FTX on March 23, 2022, to discuss “no action relief”. That is SEC jargon for a regulatory free pass. 👇🏻
2/ @GaryGensler met with @SBF_FTX six days later. The XRPArmy posted this information to @andrewrsorkin’s Twitter. Gensler then dodged his questions on the air about what this meeting was about. 👇🏻
The fact that @GaryGensler was talking to @SBF_FTX for months about a deal for @FTX_Official while Sam was doling out $30M in campaign gifts (mostly to Gensler’s party) was the worst kept secret in DC👇🏻
The story even made it to Congressional offices, and the need to investigate @GaryGensler’s behind-the-scenes work with @SBF_FTX must be investigated by Congress 👇🏻
HEARING THREAD👇
The parties have gathered in the courtroom and are awaiting the judge to enter. @JohnEDeaton1 is at the courthouse to observe in the public gallery of the courtroom.
(2/8) SEC document production so far has included "at least 57 unique inquiries submitted over a period of more than 29 months asking the SEC whether it considered #XRP a security" & SEC always responded it "had not made a determination" as late as Oct 2020.
(3/8) @Ripple sought to confirm the "undisputed fact" that the SEC was asked multiple times by market participants and never stated #XRP was a security to any of these inquiries, but the SEC refused, saying "market participants" is "vague and ambiguous."
By far, the winner of the cringiest, most embarrassing video posted by a federal regulator in recent memory. A watchdog group literally just referred damning evidence of conflicts of interest by senior @SECGov officials to the SEC OIG, which @GaryGensler has ignored. Then this👇
🚨FORMAL REFERRAL SENT BY @EMPOWR_us FOR INVESTIGATION OF HINMAN ETHICS VIOLATIONS. Includes evidence of serious ethics violations by William Hinman in failure to disclose conflicts related to June 2018 $ETH speech & other violations (1/4) 👇 empowr.us/empower-oversi…
(2/4) The referral to SEC IG details evidence obtained through FOIA showing Hinman "disobeyed clear directives from the SEC's Ethics Office" on multiple occasions, including giving June 2018 $ETH speech without disclosing his financial interest in a member of @EntEthAlliance.
(3/4) The exposing of Hinman's conflicts "have predictably undermined public perception that @SEC_Enforcement actions are fair and objective" and "severely undermines public confidence in @SECGov's integrity," writes @JsnFostr to Acting SEC IG Rebecca Sharek.