SEC Senior Trial Attorney William Uptegrove said Friday that SEC staff believed Binance US may be operating an unregistered securities exchange in the U.S., an assertion that Binance US objected to. On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles, of New York's Southern District Bankruptcy Court, asked SEC Senior Trial Attorney Therese Scheuer whether Binance US or Voyager could have known about this claim prior to Friday.
He also indicated that the SEC objection may not be enough to warrant a delay in approving the deal.
"Bankruptcy code doesn't contemplate an endless period of time," the judge said. "Things have to be done. We have creditors who are waiting and who in the midst of all this uncertainty have no access to property in which they've invested in some cases their life savings, so we have to take some kind of action. We have to do something."
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