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SEC sues Justin Sun, Coinbase, Celebrities; also Do Kwon arrested (recorded on March 23rd)

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Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation Allegedly Paid to Promote Unregistered Securities

Eight celebrities were allegedly paid to promote Tron and BitTorrent token. They did all of their tweets just right in a couple day period, which led to Justin Sun tweeting, "Tron is the celebrity's crypto" Six of the eight agreed to an order with the SEC where they ended up paying collectively 400k to the SEC. Austin Mahone and Soldier Boy will also apparently be going to trial with the SEC to try to argue that they're paid tweets promoting unregistered securities.

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