{"id":75230,"date":"2026-03-06T13:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75230"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:16:35","slug":"sec-drops-charges-against-trons-justin-sun-for-10-million-civil-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75230","title":{"rendered":"SEC Drops Charges Against Tron&#8217;s Justin Sun For $10 Million Civil Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The SEC dismissed all charges against <strong>Tron<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/TRX-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"TRX\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/trx\/usd\">TRX<\/a>) founder <strong>Justin Sun<\/strong> and related entities on March 5, with <strong>Rainberry<\/strong> paying a $10 million civil penalty to settle the 2023 lawsuit.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Settlement Terms<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a Final Judgment dismissing all claims against Sun, the Tron Foundation, and the <strong>BitTorrent Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Rainberry, formerly BitTorrent Inc., was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-05\/sec-ends-case-against-crypto-billionaire-justin-sun?srnd=homepage-americas\">ordered<\/a> to pay a $10 million civil penalty to the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal is with prejudice, meaning the regulator cannot bring the same claims again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The settlement includes no admission or denial of wrongdoing. Rainberry agreed to a permanent injunction barring future violations of certain securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/2029697275472269633\">responded<\/a> on X: \u201cToday\u2019s resolution brings closure, but I never stopped building. I will continue to focus on accelerating innovation in the United States and around the world and look forward to working with the SEC to develop guidance and regulations for crypto &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51093067\/sec-drops-charges-against-trons-justin-sun-for-10-million-civil-penalty?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"SEC\" drops charges against tron justin sun for million civil penalty>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC dismissed all charges against Tron (CRYPTO: TRX) founder Justin Sun and related entities on March 5, with Rainberry paying a $10 million civil penalty to settle the 2023 lawsuit. The Settlement Terms The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a Final Judgment dismissing all claims against Sun, 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-75230","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\/75230","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=75230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}