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by notyourday 3116 days ago
> This is amazing! The SEC haven't quite stepped in yet. But I fully expect them to. And this gives some great insight into what we can expect in the future

In my view, the biggest issue that we currently have is that SEC is not going after attorneys and accountants who are facilitating these schemes. Do note that I'm not talking about a company performing ICO hiring a law firm to do it correctly, crossing the Ts and dotting the Is. What I'm talking is SchmoeCo going to a law firm specializing in ICOs ( sidebar: can you even believe that there are now law firms that specialize in ICOs?! ) basically disclosing that their ICO is a gigantic fraud scheme and those law firms and accountants help them to pull off this scheme, often for a percentage of the money raised.

Going after those firms will relegate the ICO scams and frauds to the pink sheet pump and dump scheme level while letting the legitimate companies to use ICOs to raise money for legitimate even if very speculative projects.