Haliey Welch, popularly known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” revealed that the FBI briefly investigated her after the failure of a memecoin project bearing her name and image. The token, named Hawk Tuah (HAWK), plummeted in value shortly after launch in December, prompting allegations of an exit scam from the crypto community. Speaking on the May 21 episode of her Talk Tuah podcast, Welch shared that federal agents showed up unannounced at her grandmother’s home. “After the coin launch, the feds came to granny’s house and knocked on her door,” Welch said. “She called me having a heart attack, saying: ‘The FBI is here after you, what have you done?’” Welch said she later handed over her phone to the FBI and answered their questions about her involvement with the coin. She claims she was cleared of any wrongdoing after the interview. “They cleared me, I was good to go,” she stated. SEC Also Investigated but Cleared Welch In addition to the FBI’s probe, Welch revealed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also requested access to her phone. “I sent it off for two or three days,” she said. Her lawyer, James Sallah, told TMZ in March that the SEC had officially closed the investigation , with no findings or financial penalties against Welch. Welch, who became an internet sensation after a viral street interview in June, admitted on the podcast that she had little knowledge of cryptocurrency before the HAWK token. “I trusted the wrong people,” she said, adding that an unnamed company was responsible for managing her social media and scripting her promotional videos. She alleged she was directed to do a livestream with YouTuber and crypto critic Coffeezilla on launch day without warning. “Nobody told me who he was… he’s a crypto wizard — he ate me the fuck up,” she recalled. Welch Regrets Involvement and Accepts Partial Responsibility Welch insists she was only paid a marketing fee and earned nothing from the token itself, with those funds now spent on legal and PR costs. Still, she acknowledged the disappointment of her fans who bought into the coin. “It makes me feel really bad… I did not have enough knowledge about crypto to be getting involved with it. But I got talked into it.” Though Welch was not named in a December investor lawsuit against the alleged token creators . The post ‘Hawk Tuah Girl’ Haliey Welch Says FBI Questioned Her After Memecoin Collapse appeared first on TheCoinrise.com .
