Wake Up Call: Crypto Startups Hire Ex-Cops, Regulators to Prepare for New Rules

• Crypto startups have hired former regulators, ex-prosecutors, national security officials, and other government authorities, a practice that could help them head off or prepare for stricter rules. ( Bloomberg ) The ways regulators plan to tame bitcoin. ( Bloomberg )

• A new tax law provision intended to discourage the use of “hush money” in sexual harassment settlements could hurt harassment claimants as well as employers. ( Bloomberg Law )

• The SEC’s chief litigation counsel said the agency’s enforcement division is temporarily routing most of its contested enforcement to federal district courts rather than to its in-house administrative law judges until the ...