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Mar 2023
25m 49s

The Case the Crypto World Is Watching

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Securities law expert Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, discusses Grayscale Investments’s lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission over its bid to create an ETF.
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses Special Counsel Jack Smith's attempt to use the crime fraud exception to get testimony from one of former President Trump's attorneys.
June Grasso hosts.
 

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