Matt Levine, Columnist

Money Stuff: Steven Seagal’s Crypto Blessing Was Bought

February 27, 2020 at 5:21 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, Feb. 28, back on Monday.

I asked the same question about Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled back in 2018, when they got in trouble with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for promoting cryptocurrencies on social media without disclosing that they’d been paid to do so. I wrote: