One of the Good Guys

Do You Currently Work at the SEC? Are You Sick and Tired of the Corruption of Paul Atkins and His Minions? Want to Speak Truth to Power? Here’s My Guide for SEC Employees Who Want to Speak Up Carefully and Make It Count. I'm talking today about the SEC staffer told: to stop investigating a company because of who owns it, to leave a related party out, to steer clear of anything crypto, to look away when the evidence points toward a friend of the White House, to abandon the SEC's mission and the list goes on. None of it is hypothetical. Atkins has dismissed/closed dozens of crypto-related cases/investigations; 8 of the 14 it dropped involved the President's family's business partners. Per Reuters, the Trump family has earned more than $2B from crypto while investors lost about as much. And then there's the President's memecoin, which paid him $636M and cost nearly a million buyers $3.8B. The Enforcement Director quit the same day after clashing with Atkins. The whistleblower office denied all 24 claims it decided in a quarter. One commissioner is now a quorum of the entire SEC. North Korea took $6.3B from Binance, the exchange the SEC had let go, and the SEC said nothing. I'm told the Atkins suite runs on Signal and takes its orders from the White House and the crypto industry. You were in the room when the stand-down came, when the related party came off the report, when crypto vanished from exam /investigation priorities. You know where the bodies are buried. These are abuses of authority, evidence of corruption and even obstruction. And the SEC's own training never answers the real question: what can you lawfully do about it, and who can you tell? No one has ever written a comprehensive guide for the people inside the SEC. So I wrote one, (18,000 words) every fact linked to its source, built to be read on a Sunday night so you know your options by Monday. What's in it: • Two bodies of law, and why only one was built for you • The 1912 right to tell Congress, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the 2019 amendment • What you can disclose and what you can't: describe, don't carry • Understanding the SEC's confidentiality rules and NDAs • The Inspector General: Do's and don'ts for reporting abuses • Anonymity: what it buys you, what it costs you • Congress: which committees, how to reach their staff • The Office of Special Counsel: the 3rd door and its deadlines • The press: the route that feels natural but can cost you everything • The mistakes hardest to undo, from the personal device to the file that leaves the building • Recognizing retaliation before it becomes a firing • Who protects you and how far to trust them • What history teaches: Watergate, Aguirre, Flynn, Madoff • The lessons of a 1991 anonymous memo • A checklist for the SEC employee who has seen something • The case for coming forward and an offer of help You have options for Speaking Truth to Power. You're not alone. Read my Guide at: johnreedstark.com/wp-content…