{"id":94129,"date":"2020-10-21T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/abramoff-linked-crypto-firm-says-sec-has-no-case-against-it\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:07:47","slug":"abramoff-linked-crypto-firm-says-sec-has-no-case-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/abramoff-linked-crypto-firm-says-sec-has-no-case-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"# Abramoff-linked crypto firm says SEC has no case against it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Abramoff-linked crypto firm says SEC has no case against it <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5ldS1jZW50cmFsLTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTAvZDZiNjFlOGUtZjVmZi00YTA0LWFmNmEtZDI4YTIyOThkMjA3LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">The NAC Foundation has accused the United States Securities and Exchange Commission of misconduct in an ongoing case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents Oct. 20, Rowland Marcus Andrade and his company NAC Foundation\u00a0asked\u00a0a San Francisco federal judge to dismiss the SEC\u2019s June lawsuit alleging that he and his associate Jack Abramoff defrauded investors in a $5.6 million token offering.<\/p>\n<p>Andrade argued that the SEC \u201cpurposefully attempted to mislead the court\u201d by accusing him of offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> that had never been developed. According to the defendant, the SEC was aware that he held patents for Anti-Money Laundering technology related to NAC Foundation\u2019s digital currency known as \u201cAML BitCoin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Andrade said that the sale terms of AML BitCoin made it clear that the tokens were not investment contracts. He claimed that anyone who bought AML BitCoin had agreed in writing that they knew\u00a0 the tokens were not an investment and that all purchasers were aware that the tokens were a \u201cmedium of exchange and not a pooled interest in any business entity or common enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defendant reportedly stressed that written sales terms spelled out that their customers should not expect a return on investment and that the tokens were not a debt instrument.<\/p>\n<p>This, along with the SEC&#8217;s purported failure to state a critical element of the Howey test, demonstrates that the token is not a security, the defendants argued, meaning that the SEC &#8220;has no case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As reported, the SEC brought an action against Andrade and NAC Foundation in late June 2020. In the lawsuit, the securities regulator accused the defendants of raising up to $5.6 million for AML BitCoin starting in August 2017 and continuing till 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The case involves Jack Abramoff, a notorious lobbyist who was imprisoned for corruption from 2006\u20132010. According to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/california\/articles\/1321252\/abramoff-linked-crypto-firm-seeks-nix-of-sec-fraud-suit\">Law360<\/a>, Abramoff is not a party to the action against Andrade because he faced a separate SEC suit. The former lobbyist settled out of the case in July, paying a total of $55,500 in disgorgement and prejudgment interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/abramoff-linked-crypto-firm-says-sec-has-no-case-against-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Abramoff-linked crypto firm says SEC has no case against it &#8221; The NAC Foundation has accused the United States Securities and Exchange Commission of misconduct in an ongoing case.\u00a0\u00a0 According to court documents Oct. 20, Rowland Marcus Andrade and his company NAC Foundation\u00a0asked\u00a0a San Francisco federal judge to dismiss the SEC\u2019s June lawsuit alleging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/d6b61e8e-f5ff-4a04-af6a-d28a2298d207.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74863,75036,74898,74892,71433,71006,73711,55229,70934,71101,67874],"class_list":["post-94129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-ico","tag-sec","tag-tokens","tag-court","tag-fraud","tag-investments","tag-law","tag-regulation","tag-scams","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}