SEC Announces Sam Waldon, Principal Deputy Director of Enforcement, to Depart Agency on July 31

Plus Senate Democrats still holding up CLARITY Act over ethics concerns.

Congressman Asks SEC to Investigate Truth Social's Plan to Sell Real-Time Access

Plus another sentencing in the $100 million deli case from 2022.

SEC's CETU Unit Charges Mining Automatic and Founder With Fraudulent Crypto Asset Mining Scheme

Plus how crypto D&O risk Is evolving.

SEC Charges Former Director of Company, Friends with Insider Trading Before Acquisition of ExOne

Plus the SEC's OIG finds an SEC employee shared information about an ongoing enforcement investigation with her son.

CFTC Investigating Pres. Trump's Teleprompter Operator for Potential Insider Trading on Kalshi

Plus SEC receives record amount of feedback on plan to scrap quarterly financial disclosures.

President and Senators to Meet Today to Work Through Ethics Demands for Clarity Act

Plus the one thing that is unanimous in the U.S. Senate: No clemency for SBF.

"One-Man CFTC" Allows for Quick Rulemaking

Plus has private litigation filled the gap left by the SEC's crypto pullback?

DOJ Sets "25 Open Matters" Quota for AUSAs

Plus an ethics provision for senior government officials continues to stall passage of Clarity Act.

DOJ Drops Charges in Alleged $772 Million Crypto Fraud

Plus top Dems call for probe into Pres. Trump's crypto earnings.

White House: We Requested Names of Dems for SEC Vacancies, Never Received Any

Plus Paul Grewal is departing Coinbase after six years.

Court Approves SEC-Musk Settlement: "Not a Rubber Stamp" but Also "Not an Ombudsman"

Plus SEC Enforcement's Kate Zoladz and Kim Frederick to lead new Retail Fraud Working Group.

This newsletter is off today, back on Thursday.