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Ripple Execs Ask Court to Block SEC Requests for Personal Financial Records
Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen are calling the SEC's subpoenas to banks “wholly inappropriate overreach” and an invasion of privacy.
Two senior executives of Ripple have asked a court to quash requests from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for access to their personal financial records.
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In a letter to the Southern District Court in New York on Thursday, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen asked Judge Sarah Netburn to block subpoenas sent to multiple banks seeking eight years'-worth of their financial information.
The SEC's request is “wholly inappropriate overreach,” the executives wrote, becaue the case relates to the alleged sale of unregistered securities and is a "non-fraud litigation."
Specifically, Garlinghouse and Larsen argue their personal financial lives are not relevant, though they have already agreed to provide some financial information. Additionally, the SEC's demands violate privacy interests, they said.
"The Individual Defendants’ privacy interests are especially powerful here because the requests and subpoenas seek such a comprehensive intrusion into their personal financial lives," the letter states.
Six banks have been sent subpoenas, including SVB Financial Group, First Republic Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Silver Lake Bank, Silvergate Bank and Citibank N.A, the letter indicates.
"The SEC has not offered and cannot provide a coherent explanation for why it is entitled to this information," Garlinghouse and Larsen wrote.
See also: Ripple’s Chris Larsen Files Motion to Dismiss SEC Case Over XRP Sales
In December, the regulator sued Ripple and the co-founders, alleging they had not registered XRP as a security and had sold over $1.3 billion-worth of the cryptocurrency to retail investors.
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Sebastian Sinclair
Sebastian Sinclair is the market and news reporter for CoinDesk operating in the South East Asia timezone. He has experience trading in the cryptocurrency markets, providing technical analysis and covering news developments affecting the movements on bitcoin and the industry as a whole. He currently holds no cryptocurrencies.
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