{"id":147349,"date":"2026-03-05T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147349"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:54:46","slug":"crypto-billionaire-justin-sun-settles-us-fraud-case-for-us10-millionunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147349","title":{"rendered":"Crypto billionaire Justin Sun settles US fraud case for US$10 millionUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US Securities and Exchange \u200cCommission has agreed to settle its civil fraud case against Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, with one of \u2060Sun\u2019s companies paying a US$10 million \u200cpenalty, a court filing showed on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe SEC \u200csued Sun and his \u2060companies \u2060Tron Foundation, BitTorrent Foundation and Rainberry \u200cin March 2023.<br \/>\nIt accused them of \u200cscheming to \u200cillegally distribute the cryptocurrency \u200cassets Tronix and BitTorrent, \u2060artificially inflate trading volume, and conceal&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3345633\/crypto-billionaire-justin-sun-settles-us-fraud-case-us10-million?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US Securities and Exchange \u200cCommission has agreed to settle its civil fraud case against Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147349"}],"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=147349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}