“Public opinion is a sort of atmosphere, fresh, keen, and full of sunlight, like that of the American cities, and this sunlight kills many of those noxious germs which are hatched where politicians congregate. That which, varying a once famous phrase, we may call the genius of universal publicity, has some disagreeable results, but the wholesome ones are greater and more numerous. Selfishness, injustice, cruelty, tricks, and jobs of all sorts shun the light; to expose them is to defeat them. No serious evils, no rankling sore in the body politic, can remain long concealed, and when disclosed, it is half destroyed.”
James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888).
Hello, and welcome! My name is Kimberly Earle. For 28 years, I performed investigations and oversight as a CPA Accountant in three Divisions of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In 2017, I was the Associate Chief Accountant (SK-16) in the Office of Structured Disclosure (OSD) in the SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA).
Soon after Jay Clayton became SEC Chair, my career was hijacked by a series of unfortunately corrupt new and opportunistic SEC employees. They fabricated stories to use my expertise – my 6-years work on the SEC adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) XBRL taxonomy – and then execute me by termination – to justify and fund their own promotions, and to silence me.
My career of service to country meant nothing to them; only that stealing it would inflate their corrupt, unmeritorious careers.
I began to investigate the SEC from within. On May 2, 2018, I submitted a Whistleblower statement to the SEC Commissioners and others about corruption of the SEC mission. On July 23, 2018, I submitted an Affidavit, completing an EEO Complaint. One week later, I was escorted from my SEC office by armed guard. Six weeks from that, the so-called “Decision” to terminate my federal employment arrived, ratified at the top of the SEC, on my religious holiday. It took less than a year to upend my decades of federal service.
In the aftermath, four days before announcing his own SEC departure, Jay Clayton announced the promotion of my former supervisor, Mike Willis, as a newly-created SEC Associate Director (Senior Officer), in DERA’s newly-created Office of Data Science (ODS), as foreshadowed in my Whistleblower statement. Julie K. Marlowe, his new but #2 female friend w/federal benefits was promoted to Willis’ former Assistant Director position two months later. (Hermine Wong, Willis’ #1 female friend w/federal benefits, featured in my statement, fled to the other coast one month after I published it).
My lawsuit against the SEC alleges discrimination, antisemitism, harassment, retaliation, misconduct, and violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act.
I write this website to continue my Whistleblower statement, beam sunlight on my case and similar abuses of SEC employees, and share my understanding of the historic underbelly of the SEC. The bigger picture is that the SEC’s treatment of its employees is simply a symptom of its utter corruption, and the SEC’s reign of terror over its employees and the financial markets continues to this day. Reputable SEC employees continue to contact me with stories of abusive job losses inflicted by infamous perpetrators. SEC Senior Management and the Office of General Counsel are staffed with goons serving themselves, not our country; remarkable only for their dishonesty and selfish, pathetic life goals to enrich themselves by harming others.
May sunlight offer hope as it half-destroys. Love has already proven my best justice. Now I seek and await the rest: “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” (Amos 5:24)
More to explore: Sunlight continues to disinfect with much more on my and others’ SEC stories. The SEC Revolving Door recounts friendly awards of “expert”, “sole-source”, “time and materials” contracts, $400K on a side hustle, the SEC “list to get a promo”, and how to lose the “Economist Survivor” game. The Library documents 25+ years of the downfall in integrity of leadership and oversight of the SEC. Go deep into My Inspiration. The squalid 25-year history of SEC human capital management along with a little bit of this and that is served at Public Data for the Public.
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With more pieces of the puzzle, I cried, realizing my termination story includes at least five men’s careers abused. Employee friends have confided their stories; a brave few of many. My epiphany: the SEC only slays its employees for greedy opportunity, and to silence them.
Fuck the SEC.
In over 90 years, a woman has never been selected as SEC Chief Accountant. R.I.P. equality (1933-2026). The SEC is a shining example of equal employment abuse opportunities. How many more honorable federal employees and their families will be harmed, replaced exponentially by dubious federal employees exploiting federal functions for personal financial benefits?
After two federal Equal Employment Opportunity Complaints, my lawsuit was filed in 2019 – now 7 years, and counting. Motions for summary judgment are now pending since August 11, 2023 – stalled nearly three years – and I wait, with the many plaintiffs assigned to a docket of justice choked.
My lawsuit is Earle v. United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, et al. (then, v. Gary Gensler, et al; now v. Paul Atkins, et al). Case No. 1:19-cv-01419 (U. S. District Court, District of Columbia). All public case documents are on PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records). [I am not an attorney].
Justice delayed, justice denied
And justifiably, the cowardly SEC fears meeting me at trial.
