‘Hawk Tuah Girl’ says she’s ‘cooperating’ with lawyers in suit related to crash of meme crypto
Internet star Haliey Welch, also known as the “Hawk Tuah Girl,” said she is “fully cooperating” with attorneys who are representing people impacted by the recent crash of $HAWK.
Internet star Haliey Welch, also known as the “Hawk Tuah Girl,” said Friday she is “fully cooperating” with attorneys who are representing people impacted by the recent crash of crypto meme coin $HAWK.
Welch helped launch the cryptocurrency, named after her viral catchphrase, earlier this month. Within hours after the digital coin was made available, its price plummeted and the 22-year-old influencer faced accusations that it was a scam. At the time, Welch’s team blamed “snipers” — bots programmed to buy tokens immediately upon launch and sell when prices spike — for causing the market cap fluctuation.
Investors of the $HAWK coin filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the coin’s creators, accusing the company overHere Ltd., its founder, Clinton So, Tuah The Moon Foundation and social media influencer Alex Larson Schultz of unlawfully promoting and selling cryptocurrency that they say was never properly registered with the SEC.
The suit, a copy of which was reviewed by NBC News, was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. It does not name Welch as a defendant.
In a post on X on Friday, Welch responded to the lawsuit, urging those who “experienced losses related to this” to contact the law firm Burwick PLLC.
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