The Securities and Exchange Commission faces a “crisis of confidence” over its in-house court, a former top agency official on Wednesday told a congressional panel examining legislation to reform the tribunal.
Joseph Grundfest, a former SEC commissioner who is now a law professor at Stanford University, said there were “fundamental issues of fairness” raised by the agency’s increasing use of its five administrative law judges, including for serious cases.
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