SEC sues Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul for SF crypto company endorsement

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What do Akon, Jake Paul, Lindsay Lohan, Ne-Yo and Soulja Boy have in common? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civilly charged them and two other celebrities with illegally touting cryptocurrencies from companies with ties to San Francisco.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced that they had civilly charged them and two other celebrities with illegally touting cryptocurrencies from companies with ties to San Francisco.

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"Sun paid celebrities with millions of social media followers to tout the unregistered offerings, while specifically directing that they not disclose their compensation," Gurbir Gerwal, the director of the SEC's division of enforcement, said in a release on Wednesday."This is the very conduct that the federal securities laws were designed to protect against regardless of the labels Sun and others used.

 

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