Exclusive: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has removed references to his meeting with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and important details of his meeting with billionaire Democratic donor George Soros from the public edition of his calendar. .
According to Fox News Digital review, Gensler’s public calendar showed there was only a staff meeting on Aug. 7, 2021, but his private calendar lists a meeting with Clinton. And on August 20, 2021, his public calendar lists a meeting with Soros, but his private calendar shows the meeting topic was Wall Street, which the business mogul had planned to write. He hid that he was to discuss the next article in the journal.
Gensler’s private calendar revealing the discrepancy was obtained by the watchdog group Energy Policy Advocates and shared with Fox News Digital. The group was only able to obtain internal records after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the SEC.
In the last few days, around the time Fox News Digital contacted the SEC, the SEC updated Gensler’s public calendar to include a meeting with Clinton in August 2021. Archived copy of web page From April, meetings with staff are also listed.
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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler speaks at a congressional hearing.
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An SEC spokesperson initially responded to questions by saying that the public calendar lists a meeting with Clinton. A screen on the calendar showing the meeting with Mrs. Clinton was not listed. ” I replied that I would update my calendar.
A former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama administration official, Gensler was chief financial officer of the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign. The Senate has confirmed that he will head his SEC in April 2021, shortly after President Biden selected him for a high-profile position.
An archived copy of Gensler’s public calendar shows the SEC’s September 2021 meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Minyon Moore, a Washington, DC-based consultant and former White House official. It also shows that you hid the . The public calendar has been updated to show these meetings as well.
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Meanwhile — on September 6, 2021, about two weeks after Gensler and Soros met — The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed written by Soros. Gensler’s private calendar states that the purpose of the August 20th meeting is “Re: The WSJ Editorial”, but his public not his calendar.
In the article, Soros blew up Leading Asset Manager BlackRock For launching an investment product for Chinese clients while praising the company’s environmental policies. Soros ultimately argued that Congress should pass legislation giving the already-strong SEC more regulatory powers.
About two weeks after meeting with Gensler, George Soros wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal in favor of strengthening the powers of the SEC.
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“It’s striking that even George Soros has accused progressive darling BlackRock of cowardly missteps — even if it’s a genuinely damaging attempt to impose BlackRock’s shared ‘climate’ agenda on the United States.” The agenda is also very welcome to China, even if it brings much-needed tribal praise to the ‘ESG’ campaign that gives them the power,” Chris Horner, a lawyer representing Energy Policy Advocates, told Fox News Digital. rice field. “As a result, it is truly amazing that Soros appears to have been advised by Gary Gensler about mega-donors seeking to expand SEC powers.”
“This lends further credence to widespread concerns that Gensler is perhaps deeply politicizing independent commissions.” Gary Gensler is now chairman of the SEC and his calendar shows he knew the purpose of the meeting, so it’s important to know who thought this and why and what was said. There seems to be. Arrange it, through which channel”
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An SEC spokesperson said Gensler never asked anyone to “draft or submit” an op-ed, but declined to comment on the agenda of the meeting with Soros.
“This and the removal of Gensler’s talks with Hillary from the public edition of his calendar, frankly, is not the most surprising aspect of this,” Horner continued.
“The SEC first told energy policy proponents that they would only get publicly posted calendars,” he continued. “Energy Policy Advocates noted that these sanitized versions were typically posted months after the fact and were not created from memory, and that the group wanted the original. , objected.Here is the reason for the scrub that these internal versions receive.”
The SEC hid from public the meetings Gensler had with Clinton and Pelosi in 2021.
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Gensler faces fierce criticism from business groups and Republican lawmakers for pushing progressive policies Including Climate Disclosure Rules This requires publicly traded companies to share carbon emissions data and other climate information.
Two top Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) and Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), said: introduced the law this month That would limit the SEC’s ability to require such climate disclosures.
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“America’s job creators are under constant attack from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s heavy-handed regulatory approach under Gary Gensler,” Huizenga told Fox Business on Dec. 1.
“This is as clear as the SEC’s clear desire to significantly expand its disclosure requirements. It makes it harder to be financially secure and retire.”
FOX Business reporter Eleanor Tellett contributed to this report.
