{"id":9379,"date":"2023-03-22T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/sec-sues-celebrities-including-lindsay-lohan-for-endorsing-cryptocurrencies\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:38:17","slug":"sec-sues-celebrities-including-lindsay-lohan-for-endorsing-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/sec-sues-celebrities-including-lindsay-lohan-for-endorsing-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC sues celebrities including Lindsay Lohan for endorsing cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEC charged eight celebrities for \u2018illegally touting TRX and\/or BTT\u2019, along with Tron founder Justin Sun<\/p>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2023-59\">filed<\/a> charges against a handful of celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and Ne-Yo for violating laws in touting cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the SEC filed the charges against the celebrities as part of its broader charges filed against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and three of his companies: Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc (formerly BitTorrent) for the unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/22\/sec-sues-celebrities-cryptocurrencies-lindsay-lohan-tron\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c19176a8a2a4ca3653e70f83516cb0f2a7742aa1\/0_0_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=13da29f571b6b0a99d2fc5ab2b70db08\" title=\"SEC sues celebrities including Lindsay Lohan for endorsing cryptocurrencies\" \/>SEC charged eight celebrities for \u2018illegally touting TRX and\/or BTT\u2019, along with Tron founder Justin Sun<br \/>\nThe Securities and Exchange Commission have filed charges against a handful of celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and Ne-Yo for violating laws in touting cryptocurrencies.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the SEC filed the charges against the celebrities as part of its broader charges filed against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and three of his companies: Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc (formerly BitTorrent) for the unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEC charged eight celebrities for \u2018illegally touting TRX and\/or BTT\u2019, along with Tron founder Justin Sun The Securities and Exchange Commission have filed charges against a handful of celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and Ne-Yo for violating laws in touting cryptocurrencies. On Wednesday, the SEC filed the charges against the celebrities as part of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/sec-sues-celebrities-including-lindsay-lohan-for-endorsing-cryptocurrencies\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEC sues celebrities including Lindsay Lohan for endorsing cryptocurrencies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}