THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has won a acumen adjoin Steven Seagal afterwards the acclaimed amateur bootless to pay the agreed sum to achieve the crypto artifice case he was complex in Seagal now active in Russia has been blank the SECs attempts to acquaintance him
Steven Seagal Ignores SEC, Fails to Pay Settlement
A federal adjudicator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, William Kuntz, active an adjustment Friday acceptance the SEC to aggregate fines, penalties, and absorption from Steven Seagal.
The acclaimed amateur had agreed to pay disgorgement of added than $330,000 to achieve the crypto artifice case he was complex in. The SEC declared that Seagal bootless to acknowledge that he was promised $250,000 in banknote and $750,000 in tokens for announcement an antecedent bread alms (ICO) for Bitcoiin2gen. The SEC settled the case with Seagal in February 2020.
However, the cine brilliant fabricated aloof one $75,000 acquittal and is behind on the remainder, according to a letter from Maureen Peyton King, a advocate for the SEC.
Judge Kuntz’s Friday adjustment agency the SEC can go through Seagal’s business administrator to try and aggregate the actual $255,000 that the amateur owes the U.S. government. When Peyton King asked him if she could serve the affidavit aloft his business manager, Judge Kuntz confirmed, “Absolutely, yes.”
Seagal is currently active in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a presidential decree in 2025 acceding the amateur Russian citizenship.
The SEC acclaimed that Seagal has not responded to its again demands afterwards he fabricated the antecedent payment. Last week, Kuntz directed Seagal or his assembly to arise in cloister to acknowledge to the SEC. However, neither Seagal, his above advocate nor his administrator appeared.
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