Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal: NYT’s SEC Crypto Story Admits No Impropriety—So Why the Headline?

Paul Grewal has criticized The New York Times for what he says is a misleading narrative surrounding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) pullback from crypto enforcement. The Coinbase CLO (Chief Legal Officer) argues that the paper’s own reporting undermines its headline and broader narrative. Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal Pushes Back on NYT’s SEC Crypto Enforcement Narrative In a post on X (Twitter), Grewal highlighted a key disclosure included in the online version of the Times’ December 14 investigation into the SEC’s shifting stance toward digital assets following Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025. According to the article, reporters found “no indication that the president or the White House pressured the SEC to go easy on specific crypto firms,” and “did not find evidence that the firms had tried to influence the cases against them through donations or business ties to the Trump family source: https://beincrypto.com/coinbase-clo-nyt-sec-crypto-enforcement-story/