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I believe that investors and the public have a right to know when corporations are taking big risks through the use of offshore tax havens.

Our senators on this Committee will have one week to submit questions for the record. That means they are due July 26.

there is widespread interest in and concern about not just the years of alleged fraud carried out by Mr. Bankman-Fried at FTX, but concern about the whole sector, about the safety and security and transparency of crypto transactions.

I believe that investors and the public have a right to know when corporations are taking big risks through the use of offshore tax havens.

Thank you, Chairman Gensler, for being before the subcommittee. We look forward to continuing to be in touch on issues that were raised today.

I am concerned that that is not happening. This requires accountability, yet inadequate responses to Congressional directives and questions, including many that I have sent myself, suggest a resistance to accountability.

Well, thank you. We hope we can work with you to get ahead of them as much as possible.

Wild West of Crypto Currencies

there is widespread interest in and concern about not just the years of alleged fraud carried out by Mr. Bankman-Fried at FTX, but concern about the whole sector, about the safety and security and transparency of crypto transactions.

But don't you think that any company should be able to, with their own money, pay somebody for proxy advice which they can take or leave without anyone trying to pass a law or regulation to prevent them from using their own money in that…