{"id":15223,"date":"2025-02-26T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15223"},"modified":"2025-02-26T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:46:49","slug":"sec-justin-sun-tron-ask-court-to-pause-fraud-case-over-potential-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15223","title":{"rendered":"SEC, Justin Sun, Tron Ask Court to Pause Fraud Case Over &#8216;Potential Resolution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Tron Foundation and Justin Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.596044\/gov.uscourts.nysd.596044.82.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a joint motion<\/a> Wednesday asking a federal judge to pause the securities regulator&#8217;s ongoing case against the crypto entrepreneur and his company. <\/p>\n<p>The motion is similar to motions filed in the SEC&#8217;s ongoing cases against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/02\/14\/sec-asks-court-for-coinbase-case-deadline-extension-citing-potential-resolution-prospects\" target=\"_blank\">Coinbase<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/02\/11\/binance-and-sec-move-to-halt-case-find-an-early-resolution\" target=\"_blank\">Binance<\/a>. In both cases, the parties said they were working toward a &#8220;potential resolution&#8221; of their cases. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said last week that the SEC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/02\/20\/sec-poised-to-drop-coinbase-lawsuit-marking-big-moment-for-u-s-crypto\" target=\"_blank\">agreed to drop its case<\/a> against the exchange outright, pending commissioner approval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, the Parties submit that it is in each of their interests to stay this matter while they consider a potential resolution and agree that no party or non-party would be prejudiced by a stay,&#8221; Wednesday&#8217;s filing said. &#8220;Further, a stay is in the Court\u2019s and the public\u2019s interest because a resolution would conserve judicial resources by obviating the need for the Court to resolve the Defendants\u2019 pending motion to dismiss the complaint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2023\/03\/22\/tron-founder-justin-sun-sued-by-us-sec-on-securities-market-manipulation-charges\" target=\"_blank\">The SEC sued Tron, Sun and BitTorrent in July 2023<\/a>, alleging the defendants engaged in market manipulation, fraud and issuing unregistered securities. <\/p>\n<p>Sun tried to inflate the TRX token&#8217;s volume through wash trading, the SEC alleged at the time. The regulator said Tron Foundation employees conducted over 600,000 wash trades.<\/p>\n<p>District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos, who is overseeing the case, denied the SEC&#8217;s effort to force Tron to file an additional response in pre-trial motions. Tron filed to motion to dismiss the lawsuit outright last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sun is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/11\/26\/justin-sun-joins-donald-trumps-world-liberty-financial-as-adviser\" target=\"_blank\">an adviser to World Liberty Financial<\/a>, a company affiliated with U.S. President Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/11\/25\/trumps-sluggish-de-fi-project-gets-a-big-boost-from-justin-suns-30-m-token-purchase\" target=\"_blank\">after buying $30 million worth of the company&#8217;s WLFI tokens<\/a>. World Liberty, for its part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-makes-another-trx-buy\" target=\"_blank\">bought Tron&#8217;s TRX token<\/a> as part of its token treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/consensus-hong-kong-2025-coverage\/2025\/02\/19\/founder-of-trump-s-world-liberty-financial-credits-justin-sun-for-project-s-success\" target=\"_blank\">Founder of Trump&#8217;s World Liberty Financial Credits Justin Sun for Project&#8217;s Success<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Tron Foundation and Justin Sun filed a joint motion Wednesday asking a federal judge to pause the securities regulator&#8217;s ongoing case against the crypto entrepreneur and his company. The motion is similar to motions filed in the SEC&#8217;s ongoing cases against Coinbase and Binance. In both cases, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-15223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}