> Stockbrokers routinely go to jail for misuse of customer funds.
While some people might take reassurance in a comment like this, regarding the SEC and it's duty to the public, it's hard to look at the mortgage meltdown of 2008 and conclude that banking & investment in this country, and its overseers including Congress, is anything but corrupt to the core, and they are only going after "big crypto" because they're not going to let a bunch of amateurs get in on the action.
"Amateurs" here meaning people that didn't go to an Ivy League school and isn't part of the same clubs. They definitely are not small fish. That's the point. They made out like bandits (literally), and they're not part of the "club," therefore, they have to go.
While some people might take reassurance in a comment like this, regarding the SEC and it's duty to the public, it's hard to look at the mortgage meltdown of 2008 and conclude that banking & investment in this country, and its overseers including Congress, is anything but corrupt to the core, and they are only going after "big crypto" because they're not going to let a bunch of amateurs get in on the action.