After 372 time, Haliey Welch, better known as the Hawk Tuah girl, has suddenly woken from her stupor to announce she’s made some new companions —namely, the exact law firm that’s suing her business partners over her failed image gold job.
Sixteen days earlier, Welch’s would-be image gold album, a Solana gift called HAWK, imploded at start, enriching an apparently interconnected web of beginning investors and leaving most financial traders in the lurch. Welch went radio silence for weeks on end telling an angry audience on an X Spaces that evening that she was going to bed and would see everyone in the morning.
Welch broke that silence on Friday by announcing she would work with the legal team that sued the HAWK token’s creators on Thursday for allegedly breaking American securities laws.
I want to address my fans, the affected investors, and the wider community because I take this situation very seriously. I am fully committed to working with and assisting the legal team representing the victims, as well as assisting in the investigation…
— Haliey Welch ( @Haliey WelchX ) December 20, 2024
Welch stated on X ( previously Twitter ) that he is” cooperating fully with and committed to assisting the legal team representing the affected individuals” as well as “helping uncover the truth, hold the responsible parties accountable, and resolve this matter.  ,
Welch’s spokesperson told that the influencer was” totally siloed” from the HAWK project and “had no control over it.”
Additionally, the spokesperson claimed that Welch only received a fixed sponsorship fee for contributing to the meme coin project, adding that” there was no guarantee she would make any additional money from the meme coin thereafter.”
That story contradicts one that the team presented earlier this week by accepting responsibility for the majority of HAWK. Over Here, a platform for the launch of crypto tokens, announced on Tuesday that it had only become a leader over the doomed token as a result of the disappearance of one of Welch’s associates, a mysterious” Doc Hollywood,” when things got difficult.
The OverHere team allegedly blamed Welch and Doc Hollywood for their alleged lack of transparency, and claimed it paid no money to HAWK and made no money on the project.
The lawsuit filed Thursday against the project—by 12 American plaintiffs claiming to have suffered damages in excess of$ 151, 000 from the project—listed OverHere as one of multiple defendants. It did not list Welch.  ,
A celebrity like Welch has actively aided a lawsuit aimed at a project the celebrity lent their likeness to, according to Alexandra Roberts, a law professor at Northeastern University.
” I think it’s a great PR move”, Roberts said. She’s trying to get out in front of it and say something absolutely clear,” Not only did I not know what was happening, but I want to stand up for the people who were defrauded.”
Burwick Law, the firm suing HAWK’s creators, told that it does not represent Welch, but is in conversations with her counsel.
When asked why Welch was not listed as a co-defendant in the HAWK lawsuit, Max Burwick, managing partner at Burwick Law, said the decision was intentional, and hinted it might help make his clients whole sooner.  ,
We have chosen the approach we think will be most effective in assisting our clients in getting meaningful results in this matter, Burwick told .
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