{"id":4264,"date":"2018-12-11T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:14:57","slug":"floyd-mayweather-jr-and-dj-khaled-agree-to-settle-sec-cryptocurrency-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4264","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled Agree to Settle SEC Cryptocurrency Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr., and music producer DJ Khaled became the first celebrities to face punishment over touting cryptocurrency deals that regulators say were fraudulent.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d9\/Floyd_Mayweather_Jr_2011.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for floyd mayweather\" width=\"118\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mayweather agreed to a $300,000 fine and to forfeit an additional $300,000 representing his gains from the currency sales. DJ Khaled will give up the $50,000 he earned and will pay a $100,000 penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC warned that celebrity endorsements of cryptocoin offerings may be illegal if the promoters don&#8217;t disclose the source and amount of their compensation.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/.image\/ar_1:1%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cg_face%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_300\/MTUxMzUyMzc4MTU3NzA0Mzg0\/dj-khaled_gettyimages-695753686.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for dj khaled\" width=\"137\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have been a victim of fraud, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at Hoorfarlaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr., and music producer DJ Khaled became the first celebrities to face punishment over touting cryptocurrency deals that regulators say were fraudulent.\u00a0 Mayweather agreed to a $300,000 fine and to forfeit an additional $300,000 representing his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}