The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office

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Christopher E. Martin was a senior trial counsel at the S.E.C. and led the case against one of those crypto firms. He retired after the agency dropped the suit this year.

“It was a complete surrender,” he said of the S.E.C.’s broader retreat. “They’ve really just thrown investors to the wolves.”

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