{"id":5233,"date":"2025-04-12T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/sec-inspector-general-releases-report-clearing-simpson-thacher-senior-adviser-of-ethics-charges\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T03:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:22:58","slug":"sec-inspector-general-releases-report-clearing-simpson-thacher-senior-adviser-of-ethics-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/sec-inspector-general-releases-report-clearing-simpson-thacher-senior-adviser-of-ethics-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Inspector General Releases Report Clearing Simpson Thacher Senior Adviser of Ethics Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official did not violate ethics rules by declaring at a 2018 summit that the native token of Ethereum, a company linked to Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett\u2014where he had previously been a partner\u2014wasn\u2019t a security, the agency\u2019s internal watchdog said in a report released Thursday following a years-long Freedom of Information Act request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The SEC\u2019s inspector general found that Bill Hinman, when he was the SEC\u2019s corporate finance director, had given remarks that had been prepared by multiple officials and cleared by the appropriate parties. The reference to Ether, the watchdog concluded, had been a \u201ccollaborative\u201d decision to provide listeners with an illustrative example on how to comply with SEC policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official did not violate ethics rules by declaring at a 2018 summit that the native token of Ethereum, a company linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5486,1907,5485,2875,1009,5484,568,1351,762,970,733,734],"class_list":["post-5233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-adviser","tag-charges","tag-clearing","tag-ethics","tag-general","tag-inspector","tag-releases","tag-report","tag-sec","tag-senior","tag-simpson","tag-thacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}