Oh, I'm sure it happened. It's not that it's okay to do it now, it's that Trump is an openly transactional ruler, and paying him money is how you get out of a crime.

From the complaint:

> From at least April 2018 through February 2019, Sun allegedly directed his employees to engage in more than 600,000 wash trades of TRX between two crypto asset trading platform accounts he controlled, with between 4.5 million and 7.4 million TRX wash traded daily. This scheme required a significant supply of TRX, which Sun allegedly provided.

I wonder: did this not happen and did the SEC fabricate this? Or is it simply OK to do this now? 😂

optimism

Some good quid pro quo for him (given the money he sent Trump). Can't say I'm overly invested here -- much as I like neither Trump nor Sun, it seemed the the case was dragging and going nowhere, and there are better uses for resources.