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SEC Charges Rapper TI With Securites Violations for ICO

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Sep 11, 2020 at 21:52 UTCUpdated Sep 11, 2020 at 21:54 UTC

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 08:  T.I. speaks onstage during Netflix Presents Rhythm+Flow Atlanta screening at Clark Atlanta University on October 08, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Netflix/Allied Integrated Marketing)

T.I. speaks onstage during a Netflix screening at Clark Atlanta University on Oct. 8, 2019. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two crypto startups and eight individuals including rapper Clifford Harris Jr., more commonly known as T.I., with violating the Securities Act of 1933 and other charges due to their involvement with a pair of initial coin offerings (ICOs).

The SEC alleged Friday that film producer Ryan Felton misappropriated funds and wash traded cryptocurrencies using the proceeds from two ICOs: FLiK, a digital streaming platform, and CoinSpark, a digital asset trading platform. TI and Atlanta residents Owen Smith, Chance White and William Spark, Jr. are charged with violating securities law for recommending investors buy tokens from one or the other of the sales without disclosing they were paid by the projects. There are three relief defendants as well.

Seven of the individuals, including T.I., settled their charges with the ICO.

The FLiK ICO raised about 539 ether (ETH), worth $164,665 at the time (late September 2018), while the CoinSpark ICO raised about 460 ether, worth about $282,418 in 2018, the SEC said in a separate complaint.

Felton now faces fraud and manipulation charges, according to the SEC.

T.I. “offered and sold FLiK” tokens, pretending to co-own the business and encouraging his followers to invest in the project. At least one of the other respondents appear to be T.I.’s employees – social media manager Sparks.

Read more: Self-Help Firm That Mostly Took Bitcoin as Payment Mostly Just Helped Itself, SEC Charges

The rapper has agreed to pay a $75,000 fine and not participate in any digital asset sales for at least five years; Sparks agreed to pay a $25,000 fine and likewise refrain from participating in any securities sales for five years.

Friday’s actions continue the SEC’s trend of bringing charges against founders who took investor funds for personal use after the 2017 and early 2018 cryptocurrency bull run.

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