SEC 将关闭 DEBT Box 加密诉讼失败背后的办公室

在监管机构提出无偏见驳回申请后，法官上周驳回了 SEC 针对 DEBT Box 的案件。

The Salt Lake City office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will close down after seeing "significant attrition" among its staff, some of whom were pushed out over the failed fraud lawsuit against crypto company DEBT Box.

美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 盐湖城办事处的员工“大幅减员”后将关闭，其中一些人因针对加密货币公司 DEBT Box 的欺诈诉讼失败而被解雇。

The SEC lawyers on the case, Michael Welsh and Joseph Watkins, resigned in April after a federal judge sanctioned them for committing a "gross abuse of power" in seeking to freeze the assets of DEBT Box on misleading grounds. Just last week, the judge dismissed that case and ordered the SEC to pay DEBT Box $1.8 million in legal fees.

负责此案的 SEC 律师迈克尔·威尔士 (Michael Welsh) 和约瑟夫·沃特金斯 (Joseph Watkins) 在联邦法官以误导性理由寻求冻结 DEBT Box 资产时“严重滥用权力”而对其进行制裁后，于 4 月辞职。就在上周，法官驳回了该案，并命令 SEC 向 DEBT Box 支付 180 万美元的法律费用。

"The agency considered its budget and organizational efficiency in deciding to close the office, and it has no plans to close any other regional offices," the SEC said in a press release.

美国证券交易委员会在一份新闻稿中表示：“该机构在决定关闭该办事处时考虑了其预算和组织效率，并且没有计划关闭任何其他地区办事处。”

The regulator's Denver office will take over any enforcement jurisdiction, the SEC said.

美国证券交易委员会表示，监管机构的丹佛办事处将接管所有执法管辖权。

The SEC's Salt Lake office was opened in 2018 and had a staff of about 20 people, according to the agency's website. The office handled a variety of enforcement matters, including cases involving securities fraud, insider trading and market manipulation.

据 SEC 网站称，SEC 盐湖城办事处于 2018 年成立，拥有约 20 名员工。该办公室处理各种执法事务，包括涉及证券欺诈、内幕交易和市场操纵的案件。

The SEC's failed lawsuit against DEBT Box was one of the most high-profile cases handled by the Salt Lake office. The SEC accused DEBT Box of operating an unregistered securities offering and fraud. A federal judge dismissed the case in March 2022, ruling that the SEC had failed to show that DEBT Box's tokens were securities.

美国证券交易委员会针对 DEBT Box 提起的失败诉讼是盐湖城办公室处理的最引人注目的案件之一。美国证券交易委员会指控 DEBT Box 进行未经注册的证券发行和欺诈。一名联邦法官于 2022 年 3 月驳回了此案，裁定 SEC 未能证明 DEBT Box 的代币是证券。

The SEC appealed the ruling, but a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal in August. The appeals court also sanctioned the SEC lawyers for making false statements to the court in seeking to freeze the assets of DEBT Box.

美国证券交易委员会对该裁决提出上诉，但联邦上诉法院于 8 月维持了驳回决定。上诉法院还对 SEC 律师进行了制裁，因为他们在寻求冻结 DEBT Box 资产时向法院做出虚假陈述。

The SEC lawyers on the case, Welsh and Watkins, both left the agency in April. Welsh joined the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, while Watkins joined the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.

负责此案的 SEC 律师威尔士和沃特金斯均于 4 月离开该机构。威尔士加入了 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 律师事务所，而沃特金斯则加入了 Davis Polk & Wardwell 律师事务所。

The closure of the SEC's Salt Lake office will leave the Denver office as the only SEC regional office in the Rocky Mountain region. The Denver office has a staff of about 30 people and handles a variety of enforcement matters, including cases involving securities fraud, insider trading and market manipulation.

SEC 盐湖城办事处的关闭将使丹佛办事处成为落基山脉地区唯一的 SEC 区域办事处。丹佛办事处约有 30 名员工，负责处理各种执法事务，包括涉及证券欺诈、内幕交易和市场操纵的案件。