The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) faced yet another setback in court on Friday, December 1, 2023 with a federal judge reprimanded the agency’s attorneys in case related to a crypto firm. The judge reportedly expressed criticism of the SEC’s handling of the firm’s finances stating that the Commission made “materially false” representations to freeze assets. 
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<h2 id="sec-made-false-representations">“SEC Made False Representations”</h2> 
According to a report by Fortune, the federal judge <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/12/01/federal-judge-sec-crypto-debt-box-rebuke-restraining-order-gensler/" target="_blank">scolded</a> the attorneys representing the US SEC over its handling of millions of dollars worth of assets belonging to crypto firm Debt Box. The Utah court judge had expressed concern that the agency made “materially false and misleading representations” to freeze millions of dollars in assets. The Court had asked SEC to show cause as to why it should not be sanctioned for misleading the Court. 
The judge noted that the Commission’s misleading actions caused irreparable damage to the company, leading to the freezing of assets worth millions of dollars. The alleged misleading and misrepresented data was presented to the court by the US SEC in order to get nod for a temporary restraining order against the crypto company. 
<h2 id="legal-setbacks-add-on">Legal Setbacks Add On</h2> 
This comes after several of the legal setbacks for the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent times. The biggest of legal defeats came in the form of the partial victory for Ripple in the <a href="https://coingape.com/tag/xrp-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">XRP lawsuit</a> summary judgment, in which judge Analisa Torres ruled that the programmatic sale of tokens to retail customers did not qualify as securities. 
On the other side, the US SEC is fighting cases against top crypto exchanges <a href="https://coingape.com/tag/binance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Binance</a> and <a href="https://coingape.com/crypto-stocks/coin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coinbase ($COIN)</a> over alleged operation of unregistered sale of securities on the platforms. 
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