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Initial Coin Offerings Horrify a Former S.E.C. Regulator

13 pointsby mbgaxyzover 7 years ago

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mbgaxyzover 7 years ago
From article:<p>Joseph Grundfest, who was a commissioner at the S.E.C. in the 1980s and is now a law and business professor at Stanford, said he had been contacting current commission officials and staff to urge them to bring cases, and fast.<p>“I.C.O.s represent the most pervasive, open and notorious violation of federal securities laws since the Code of Hammurabi,” Mr. Grundfest said in an interview.<p>“It’s more than the extent of the violation,” he said. “It’s the almost comedic quality of the violation.”<p>...<p>“We’re waiting to see a whole bunch of enforcement actions in this space, and we wonder why they haven’t happened yet,” he said. “I hope what they are doing is planning on a sweep of 50 I.C.O.s.”
joeblow9999over 7 years ago
Of course he&#x27;s horrified. The whole point is to obviate the regulators.