SEC's Paul Atkins grilled on crypto enforcement pull-back, including with Justin Sun, Tron

The top Democrat on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee demanded the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission explain during a Wednesday hearing what happened with the agency's enforcement interest in Tron Foundation founder Justin Sun and whether his ties to President Donald Trump have had an influence. Representative Maxine Waters highlighted the U.S. securities regulators' abandonment of almost all of its previous crypto enforcement cases when Trump took over the White House and repl ...