SEC Mishap Highlights Taint On Government “Taint Teams”

A government agency candidly acknowledged the accidental mishandling of potentially privileged documents – this time, its own. On April 5, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement identifying a control deficiency that inadvertently eroded the separation of its enforcement and adjudicatory functions. For now, the deficiency relates only to two adjudicatory matters currently in litigation in federal court over the constitutionality of the roles of administrative law judges.

April 14, 2022

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Originally Published in Forbes