Haliey Welch, better known as “Hawk Tuah Girl,” says the Federal Bureau of Investigation temporarily investigated her after her “Memecoin Disaster.”
Welch said on May 21, the episode of the “Talk Tuah” podcast, that the FBI was showing up at her grandmother’s house and trying to talk about Hawk Tuah (Hawk) Crypto Token.
“After the coin launch, the federal government came to Granny’s house and knocked on the door, she called me and had a heart attack and said, “The FBI is here after you, what have you done?”
Welch said she handed over the phone to the FBI and “meeted an agent who questioned me and asked me about everything else related to the code.”
“They cleaned me up, I’m glad I went,” Welch said.
Welch went viral due to her reaction to oral sex techniques in a Vox Pop interview posted to YouTube in June.
Based on her virus catchphrase, Hawk’s Memecoin was launched in early December, losing almost 90% of its value and blockchain analytics company Bubblemaps, and was bought by insider wallets and snipers, dumping a massive amount of tokens at launch.
Welch said on the podcast that the Securities and Exchange Commission also requested a call, sending it “for two or three days” before it was cleared.
Welch’s lawyer James Sarah told TMZ in March that the SEC “stops the investigation without asking for financial sanctions from Harry or investigating it.”
“I trusted the wrong people.”
Welch admitted before Hawk Memocoin that he knew little about the code and said he “trusted the wrong people” for the launch.
She claimed that she could not name her for legal reasons, and had full control over her X account, which she posted a video promoting Memecoin.
Welch said she was sent to record it on video. The video was posted to her X account by someone she trusts but cannot legally name.
She added that on the day of Hawk’s launch, “I knew something was going on,” and that a team of people was drawn into a room known as Coffeyzilla to speak to YouTuber Stephen Findeisen in a livestream.
“Coffeezilla got there and they’re like, ‘Mute, mute,'” Welch said. “No one warned me about this guy. No one at all. They didn’t tell me he was like a code wizard. That’s exactly him.
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Welch said she was paid only for the marketing fee and “didn’t make 10 cents from the coin itself.”
Despite being exempt from legal misconduct, Welch has been accountable and admitted to disappointing many of the fans who invested in the coin.
“It really made them feel bad for them to trust me and I led them to something that they didn’t know enough. I didn’t have enough knowledge about cryptography to get involved in it. And I knew it, but I spoke to it, and I trusted the wrong people.”
A group of Hawk buyers sued the creator of the token suspect in December, claiming that Token Backing the Moon Foundation, Token Launchpad Over Hall Limited, which founder Clinton promoted and sold Hawk as unregistered security.
Welch was not appointed as defendant.
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