Judge Orders US SEC To Pay $1.75 Million in Debt Box Case

In a recent ruling, a U.S. District Court Judge, Robert J. Shelby ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should pay legal fees and costs of over $17.5 million in the Debt Box case . This decision follows the SEC’s behaviour in a case concerning the cryptocurrency firm, Debt Box, where the judge considered the SEC’s conduct to be misleading, and acted in bad faith.

US SEC to pay $ 1. 75 million in debt box case

According to Judge Shelby, the SEC should be held liable for $1 million for attorney fees and roughly $750,000 for receivership fees. The ruling also reflects the judge’s disdain for the SEC’s conduct in obtaining a TRO and an asset freeze against Debt Box last August based on misrepresentations.

Initially, the SEC had charged Debt Box with a $50 million fraud and had stated that the firm had moved the money to other countries to conceal it. However, it was later established that the funds were transferred within the United States and not internationally as the SEC alleged.

Judge Shelby also criticized the actions of SEC attorney Michael Welsh and the SEC’s approach in this case. He said that the SEC not only made misstatements to the court but also never corrected them, opting instead to change the wording of their statements in order to continue to perpetuate the narrative they had created.

This, Shelby argued, was a “gross abuse of the power entrusted to it by Congress” and it “substantially undermined the integrity of these proceedings. ”

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