{"id":129671,"date":"2025-05-21T04:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129671"},"modified":"2025-05-21T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:15:29","slug":"hawk-tuah-girl-haliey-welch-says-fbi-probed-her-memecoin-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129671","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hawk tuah girl\u2019 Haliey Welch says FBI probed her \u2018memecoin disaster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsHaliey Welch, better known as the \u201cHawk tuah girl,\u201d says the Federal Bureau of Investigation briefly probed her after her \u201cmemecoin disaster\u201d \u2014 the failed launch of a token in her image that she promoted.\u00a0
\nWelch said in a May 21 episode of her \u201cTalk Tuah\u201d podcast that the FBI showed up at her grandmother\u2019s house looking to speak to her over the Hawk Tuah (HAWK) crypto token, which many crypto commentators have called an exit scam.
\n\u201cAfter the coin launch, the feds came to granny\u2019s house and knocked on her door, and she called me, having a heart attack, saying: \u2018The FBI is here after you, what have you done?\u2019\u201d
\nWelch said she handed over her phone to the FBI and met with agents who \u201cinterrogated me, asking me questions and everything else related to crypto.\u201d
\n\u201cThey cleared me, I was good to go,\u201d Welch said.\u00a0
\nWelch went viral for her response about an oral sex technique in a vox pop interview posted to YouTube in June.\u00a0
\nThe HAWK memecoin, based on her viral catchphrase, launched in early December and almost immediately lost 90% of its value and blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps\u2019 alleged insider wallets and snipers bought up and dumped massive quantities of the token at launch.
\nHaliey Welch speaking on her Talk Tuah podcast about the HAWK memecoin. Source: YouTubeWelch said on her podcast that the Securities and Exchange Commission also asked for her phone, and she sent it off \u201cfor two or three days\u201d before she was cleared.
\nWelch\u2019s lawyer James Sallah told TMZ in March that the SEC \u201cclosed the investigation without making any findings against, or seeking any monetary sanctions from, Haliey.\u201d
\n\u201cI trusted the wrong people\u201d
\nWelch admitted knowing very little about crypto before the HAWK memecoin and said she \u201ctrusted the wrong people\u201d for the launch.
\nShe claimed a company, which she said she couldn\u2019t name for legal reasons, was in full control of her X account, which posted videos of her promoting the memecoin.
\nWelch said she was sent lines to record on video, which were then posted on her X account by someone she trusted but could also not legally name.
\nShe added that on the day of HAWK\u2019s launch, she \u201ckind of knew something was up\u201d and was pulled into a room where a team of people told her to talk on a livestream with YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla.
\n\u201cCoffeezilla got on there and they’re like \u2018Mute it, mute it,\u2019\u201d Welch said. \u201cNobody warned me about this guy at all, like nobody at all, they didn’t tell me he was like a crypto wizard, that’s exactly what he is \u2014 he ate me the fuck up.\u201d
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\nWelch said she was only paid a marketing fee and \u201cdid not make a dime from the coin itself,\u201d which she said had been totally spent on legal and public relations fees.
\nA now-deleted post where Welch shared the HAWK token\u2019s tokenomics before it launched. Source: XDespite being cleared of any legal wrongdoing, Welch took some accountability, admitting that she let many of her fans down who invested in the coin:
\n\u201cIt makes me feel really bad that they trusted me, and I led them to something that I did not have enough knowledge about. I did not have enough knowledge about crypto to be getting involved with it. And I knew that, but I got talked into it, and I trusted the wrong people.\u201d
\nA group of HAWK buyers sued the alleged creators of the token in December, claiming Alex Schultz, the token\u2019s backing Tuah the Moon Foundation, the token launchpad overHere Limited, and its founder Clinton So promoted and sold HAWK as an unregistered security.
\nWelch wasn’t named as a defendant.
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Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsHaliey Welch, better known as the \u201cHawk tuah girl,\u201d says the Federal Bureau of Investigation briefly probed her after her \u201cmemecoin disaster\u201d \u2014 the failed launch of a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}