Greedy Akon Faces Karma, Charged For Illegals Crypto Scheme

[RAMROD 87,013]

Eight celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan and Jake Paul, have been charged by US regulators with participating in an illegal crypto scheme. 

The stars allegedly used their social platforms to boost two crypto tokens without disclosing they were paid to promote them. 

The charges were announced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a news releaseon Wednesday. 

Lohan and Paul have paid to settle the charges without admitting guilt.

The other celebs charged are:

Musician Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez Way)

Singer Austin Mahone

**** actress Kendra Lust (Michele Mason)

Rapper Lil Yachty (Miles Parks McCollum)

Musician Ne-Yo (Shaffer Smith)

Senegalese-American singer Aliaune Thiam (Akon)

The group is accused of illegally promoting TRX and BTT crypto assets "without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so and the amount of their compensation", the SEC said.

Justin Sun, a crypto investor and diplomat for the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, is also accused of fraud by manipulating the trading activity of the two tokens to make it appear as if they were actively being traded in a crime known as "wash trading". 

Mr Sun, a Chinese-born protégé of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, is known for having once paid $4.6m (£3.7m) to have dinner with investor Warren Buffett.

He is accused of "orchestrating a promotional campaign in which he and his celebrity promoters hid the fact that the celebrities were paid for their tweet", the SEC added in their news release. 

His companies - Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd and Rainberry Inc (formerly BitTorrent) - are also charged as part of the scheme.

All of the celebrities, apart from Soulja Boy and Mahone, have paid a combined total of more than $400,000 to settle the charges. 

Lohan, who is best known for her role in the 2004 film Mean Girls, had 8.4 million Twitter followers when she posted a message calling for her followers to invest.

The 36-year-old actress, who charging documents say is a resident of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, paid $10,000 to the SEC and another $30,000 in penalties.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65046882

 

 

 

Edited March 23 by RAMROD

[CoolTrainerTerry 741]

Resident of Dubai? What did I miss?

[soularpower 2,950]

14 minutes ago, CoolTrainerTerry said:

Resident of Dubai? What did I miss?

Yeah I’m pretty sure she’s been a resident of Dubai since like 2017 or something like that

[AnglerfishbraBENUS 3,823]

change the title to ‘Greedy Akon faces Karma’ for that hit thread 

[LateToCult 32,508]

33 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

All of the celebrities, apart from Soulja Boy and Mahone, have paid a combined total of more than $400,000 to settle the charges.

Not the broke ones being singled out. 

[badfaith 5,341]

10 minutes ago, LateToCult said:

Not the broke ones being singled out. 

Mahone's OF certainly can't pay it when he's been edging the gays and putting them off since he started 

[Robo Ga 13,579]

1 hour ago, LateToCult said:

Not the broke ones being singled out. 

IM SICK😂😂😂😂😂😂

[RAMROD 87,013]

3 hours ago, AnglerfishbraBENUS said:

change the title to ‘Greedy Akon faces Karma’ for that hit thread 

Hmmm 🤔

Let's try it 

[AnglerfishbraBENUS 3,823]

12 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Hmmm 🤔

Let's try it 

only because of his cashing out on Gaga lol

[RenegAde 15,093]

I don't mean to be rude but you can tell that they're all guilty just by the people that were charged.

[RadioIsOurs 13,650]

Why is "Greedy Akon" kinda giving same energy as 'F*t Lizzo" by Azealia Banks  

Edited March 23 by RadioIsOurs

[VTV 9,870]

14 minutes ago, RadioIsOurs said:

Why is "Greedy Akon" kinda giving same energy as 'F*t Lizzo" by Azealia Banks  

ur reaching luv