WASHINGTON—Employees at the Securities and Exchange Commission improperly accessed documents prepared for cases being litigated in the agency’s administrative court system, according to an agency notice Tuesday.
The disclosure highlights concerns about the independence of the SEC’s in-house court system, which have persisted for years. The agency’s enforcement attorneys prosecute cases in the administrative courts before judges who are also SEC employees. The SEC’s commissioners, who run the agency and oversee the enforcement division’s work, can hear appeals of cases first resolved by the in-house judges.
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