Watchdog sues SEC over FOIA access to docs on potential crypto conflict of interest

Watchdog group Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research (EMPOWR) has filed suit against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to force the agency to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for access to communications between former SEC officials and their former and future employers. EMPOWR claimed in its suit that the former SEC officials had a potential…